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

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

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

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

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

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

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

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

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

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

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

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

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

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.