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

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

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

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

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

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

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

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

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.