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

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

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

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

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

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

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

These boots are made for selfies.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

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

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

The only international border marker within the United States.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.