The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

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.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

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

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

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

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.