Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

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

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

Victims of the Webster Massacre are buried here in a mass grave.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

For over 75 years, this cute stone statue has warmed the hearts of San Antonio.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.