Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

The remnants of a 1970 plane crash remain high in the Rocky Mountains.

Each year, teams of the world's best snow sculptors have 65 hours to create frozen masterpieces.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

A museum dedicated to the lovable crime couple Bonnie & Clyde, just a few miles away from the site of their early demise.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.