This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

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

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.