Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

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

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

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

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

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

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

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.