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

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

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

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

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

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

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

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.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The only cave in Louisiana has played host to a state's-worth of clandestine activities.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

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

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

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

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.