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

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

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

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

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

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.