Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

The mansion-like building is packed with Texas pride.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

This small museum tells the story of Fort Worth's first and largest superstore.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

"They died with their boots on."

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

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

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

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

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

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

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.