A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.