"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

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

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.