A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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

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

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

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

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

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

In Parr Park, thousands of painted rocks line this walking trail.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.