Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

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

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

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

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.