Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

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

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

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

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Cold storage for agricultural biodiversity.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

This now-defunct synthetic fuel plant was once a major cog in the Nazi war machine.