The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

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

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

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

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

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

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

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

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The highest point in Oklahoma used to be a lawless outlaw's paradise.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.