The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

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

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

A true treehouse near Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

The art and history of the velvet painting are on full display in this Los Angeles museum.

A surreal, Gaudi-inspired play space near an Anaheim community center.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.