Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

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

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

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

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

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

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Here, at the "world's longest art gallery," you'll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.