Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

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

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

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

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

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

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

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

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

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

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.