A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

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

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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

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 modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Its incredible collection preserves 170 years of sewing machine history.

It reportedly took three years to sort through all the objects in this eclectic lifelong collection.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.