No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

The oldest active mini golf course in the U.S. has an elegant Art Deco style filled with lush tropical plants.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

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

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

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

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

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

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

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

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.