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

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

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

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

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

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

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

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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

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

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

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.