A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

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

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

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

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

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.