This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

Created by Catalan artist Joan Miró in 1978 and made up of 350,000 tiles, this mural is the only large-scale glass mosaic the artist ever created.

Enjoy a tour of oddities and makeshift monsters at this souvenir store with an offbeat sense of humor.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

Home of mutant livestock.

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

This statue is an ode to an iconic roadside advertisement popularized during the 1970s.