Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

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

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

An entire home filled with over 3,000 pieces of Santa memorabilia in glass cases, walls, on Christmas trees, and even in the bathroom.

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

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

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

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

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.