Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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 former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.