Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

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

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

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

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

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

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.