It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

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

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.