An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

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

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

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

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

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

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

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