A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

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

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

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

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

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

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

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

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

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.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.