Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.