The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

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

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

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

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

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

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

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

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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