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

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

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

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

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

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

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

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

A notoriously corrupt Chief of Police's deteriorating Greek-themed playhouse.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.