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

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

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

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

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

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.