The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

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

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.