An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

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.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

One of the only Florida forts to remain in the hands of the Union all through the Civil War still stands as a historic stronghold.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

These boots are made for selfies.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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