A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

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

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.