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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

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.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

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.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

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.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.