In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

When life gave this firefighter a forest fire, he made a rough-hewn sculpture park using a chainsaw.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

The oldest continuously occupied public building in the United States.

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

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

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

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

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

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

A sculpture of a flying hawk made from colorful car doors.

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.