Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

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

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

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

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

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.

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

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

An amazing stag sculpture constructed entirely of discarded materials.

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

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

For over 75 years, this cute stone statue has warmed the hearts of San Antonio.

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

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

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

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

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

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.