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

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

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

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

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

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Long before wi-fi, this public seat provided the wonder of being online while outdoors.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

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

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.