Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

These boots are made for selfies.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

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

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

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

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

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

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

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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