Once seen as a bit of an eyesore, this sculpture has become a staple of downtown Houston.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

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

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

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

The mansion-like building is packed with Texas pride.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

A symbol of Texas pride.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The man who wasn't there.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

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

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

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.