While exploring the desert, you can stop by the home of a fictional heretic from a parallel universe.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

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

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A museum, art project, and institution that demands we look at the world around us in a strange new way.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

At Fountain and Division, in the shadow of Kendall College of Art and Design, lays the story of a fictional culture whose political system was used under license and who finally rebelled.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

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

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

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.