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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

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

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

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

A curious cone-shaped structure made of wire and covered with antlers.

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

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

One nutty businessman’s unique tribute to an ancient tool.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A cemetery where many of those buried had a flair for the dramatics.

Hundreds of samples of "Devil's Rope" hide in a defunct vintage elevator.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’

The early data processor factory founded in Washington for the 1890 U.S. Census went on to become IBM.

A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.