A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

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

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

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

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