Sacred Spaces in Texas

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

This unusual roadside attraction filled with handcrafted signage is home to a unique church.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

A priceless work of art created by the saint's own blood sister hangs in a San Antonio basilica.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

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

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

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

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