Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

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

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

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

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

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

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

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