In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

This abandoned building made of petrified wood was once a hotspot for buying moonshine.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

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

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

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