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

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

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

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

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

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

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

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

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

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

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.