A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

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

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

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

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

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

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.