Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

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

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

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

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

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

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

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

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

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

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

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

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

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

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.