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

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

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

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

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

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

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

Once a dining hall for boarding school students, this lodge was a popular haunt for nuclear physicists working on the Manhattan Project.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.