A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

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

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

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.