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

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

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

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

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

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.