This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

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

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

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

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

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

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.