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

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

This narrow Ghent alleyway is an officially sanctioned street art tunnel.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.