Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

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

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

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

These boots are made for selfies.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

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

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

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

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

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