Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

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

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

Tile mosaics and quotes from Pablo Picasso add an artistic flair to these bus stop benches.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.