A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

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.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.