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

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

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

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

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

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.