A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.