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

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

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

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

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

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

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

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

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

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

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

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

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

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.