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Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

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

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

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

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

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

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

These boots are made for selfies.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

The geomorphology of the Turia Valley could easily be mistaken for Utah or Arizona.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.