A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

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

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

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

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

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

These boots are made for selfies.

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

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

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

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

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

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

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

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.