An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

One of the world's tallest Ferris wheels takes visitors high above Las Vegas in a spinning party room.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

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

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

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

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

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

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

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

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

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.