255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

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

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

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

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

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

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

A plaque on the side of a building is a small tribute to the woman who invented an iconic Berlin fast food.

An astonishingly accurate water clock that doubles as an hourly spectacle in this Berlin shopping area.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

The largest stretch of the Berlin Wall is right on top of the former SS headquarters

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.