An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

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

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

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

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

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

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

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.