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Roadside Americana, fairy tale characters, and Austin quirkiness come together at this magical course in the heart of Texas' capital city.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

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