A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

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

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This Art Deco landmark claims to be the longest bridge over the shortest span of water in the world.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.