A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

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

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

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

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

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

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

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