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

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

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

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

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

Legend says train robbers stashed their gold within the depths of this unusual cave.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.