The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

These boots are made for selfies.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

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

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

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

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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