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It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

These boots are made for selfies.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

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

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

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

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

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

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

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

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.