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

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

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

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

"They died with their boots on."

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.