The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

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

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

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

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

"They died with their boots on."

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

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

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

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

Tile mosaics and quotes from Pablo Picasso add an artistic flair to these bus stop benches.