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

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

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.

For nearly a century, one of the oldest barbershops in Texas has been cutting hair the old fashioned way.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

"They died with their boots on."

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.