Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A rattlesnake museum showcasing over 30 species, in a century-old building that used to be the general store in this tiny West Texas town.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

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

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

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

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.