The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

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

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The only international border marker within the United States.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

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

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

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

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.