Balmorhea, Texas
Balmorhea State Park Pool
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
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Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Houston, Texas
Beer lover's can-covered house.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
Shamrock, Texas
Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.
San Antonio, Texas
A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.
Austin, Texas
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
Helotes, Texas
Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.
Austin, Texas
This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.
Waxahachie, Texas
It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.
San Antonio, Texas
Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.
Schulenburg, Texas
Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
San Antonio, Texas
These boots are made for selfies.
Denton, Texas
A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Bastrop, Texas
The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Rocksprings, Texas
This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.