The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

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

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

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

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

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

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

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

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

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.