American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

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

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The taxidermied remains of a once-great parrot.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

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

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

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.