These boots are made for selfies.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.