In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Roadside Americana, fairy tale characters, and Austin quirkiness come together at this magical course in the heart of Texas' capital city.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Once a highly polluted body of water has now been transformed into a gorgeous lagoon.

This water-powered cliffside railway is one of the steepest funiculars in the world.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

The shallow, salty inlet was a safe haven for 19th-century pirates.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This underwater cave in Madagascar is home to what is thought to be the country's largest fossil graveyard.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.