This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

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

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.