No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

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 private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

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

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.