An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

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

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Supposedly Satanic numbers adorn this preserved submarine sail.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

Buy your friend a drink or staple some cash to the wall for the next guy at the Salty Dawg Saloon.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.