In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

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

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

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

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

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

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

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A famed artist's inspiring work of peace and tolerance.

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

Horrifically creative torture devices and shame punishments line the walls of this chilling museum.