This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

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.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

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

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

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

One nutty businessman’s unique tribute to an ancient tool.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

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

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

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.