A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

The only international border marker within the United States.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

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

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

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

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

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

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

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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