A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

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

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.