The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

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

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

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

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

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

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