One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

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

An Americana dreamscape.

This upscale restaurant specializing in Michoacán cuisine serves sauces tied to important life events.

One of the world's largest murals covers a large swath of homes in its hillside neighborhood.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Pay homage to the "Top Woman Athlete of the Twentieth Century."

A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

This South-by-South-Asian restaurant serves up Indian-spiced Southern fried chicken and a Desi-style pastrami.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

A curious cone-shaped structure made of wire and covered with antlers.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

"They died with their boots on."

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.