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

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

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

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

This jazz venue welcomes performers nightly and students daily.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A busy cafe better known for board games than food.