An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

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

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

This small park features a monumental fountain wall, providing a great photo opportunity in the middle of Houston.

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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

Once seen as a bit of an eyesore, this sculpture has become a staple of downtown Houston.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.