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Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

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.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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

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

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

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.