The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

A plaque and memorabilia collection mark where A&W got its start.

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

Located in the place where the Columbia space shuttle came down, a museum-memorial that is both touching and informative.

A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

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

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

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

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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A historic town sits upon the site of a long-lost 18th-century trading community.