A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

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

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

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

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

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

Tribute to the famous Notre Dame football coach who died in a plane crash.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

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

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

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

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

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

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

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.