A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

Victims of the Webster Massacre are buried here in a mass grave.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

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

An Americana dreamscape.

A town pays homage to its namesake.

This abandoned building made of petrified wood was once a hotspot for buying moonshine.

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

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

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

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.