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

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

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

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

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

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

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

An Ancestral Puebloan ruin that appears to burst into flames in the sunlight.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

A ghost town that held steady longer than most, but finally gave up the ghost.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.