A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

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

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

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

This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

The final resting place of one of the most sensational guitar players of all time was created only after his father got the rights to his music.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.