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

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

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

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

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

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

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."