This shrine to the patron saint of Alaska sits on a small tidal island and was built from the land’s own beach stones.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

These boots are made for selfies.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.