The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.