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

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

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

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

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

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

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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