A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

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

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Your one-stop-shop for antique tractor shows and emotional paintings of children championing livestock.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

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

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

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

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

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

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

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.