Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

This is one really big nut.

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

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

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

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

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.