A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

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

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

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

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

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

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

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

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

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

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

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