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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Together they left this world, and together they shall remain for all eternity.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

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

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

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

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.