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

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

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

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.