This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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.

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

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

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

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.