Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

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

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

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

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

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