Christ's blood preserved in a Belgian town.

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

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

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

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

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

A historic house left in "dramatic still life."

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.