The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

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

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

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.