This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

A colorful public mural in San Antonio's West Side encourages students to stay in school.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

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

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

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

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

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.