This sprawling collection of saintly relics includes such fascinations as wood from the Cross of Jesus and threads from Mary's veil.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

Created by four famous men (Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux and Thomas Story Kirkbride), the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center...but still boasts a ghost story or two!

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The realistic reptiles lurk along the side of a highway.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.