This art deco masterpiece was once a miracle spring mecca but is now simply a government office building.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

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

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

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

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Twenty-year effort to raise a castle using tools and techniques from the 13th century is now abandoned in the Arkansas woods.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.