A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

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

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.