The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

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

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

An ADA-accessible trail and deck offering stunning views of Colorado’s Mount of the Holy Cross.

This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

A Buddhist monastery tucked away in the mountains of Colorado.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

One of the oldest art supply stores in the United States.

A tiny town’s tiny museum with some gigantic residents.

An environmental art installation inspired by farmhouses and crop circles.

The warmth and creative kitsch of a quilt engulf every patron who visits.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.