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Native sculpture.

San Antonio, Texas

McNutt Sculpture Garden

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

Nike with dogs relica.

San Antonio, Texas

Miraflores

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

Elisabet Ney Museum

Austin, Texas

Elisabet Ney Museum

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Apache Drive-In Theatre
Permanently Closed

Tyler, Texas

Apache Drive-In Theatre

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

Aerial view of camp.

Mineral Wells, Texas

Camp Wolters

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Dino tracks.

Helotes, Texas

Dinosaur Tracks at Government Canyon

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

The Baker Hotel in 2006. (Wikimedia Commons)

Mineral Wells, Texas

The Baker Hotel

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Combine City has 14 "planted" combine tractors...

Amarillo, Texas

Combine City

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

Hueco Tanks

El Paso, Texas

Hueco Tanks

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

Graves surfaced from Old Bluffton.

Burnet, Texas

Old Bluffton Underwater Ghost Town

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

The marker is at the border of Texas and Louisiana on FM-31

Carthage, Texas

Last Remaining Boundary Marker for the Republic of Texas

The only international border marker within the United States.

The abandoned palace in 2008. The two smaller orbs have since been removed.

Houston, Texas

Palace of the Golden Orbs

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Guitar in sidewalk in progress.

Houston, Texas

Smither Park

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

"Ozymandias on the Plains", pictured with the sock vandalism.

Amarillo, Texas

'Ozymandias on the Plains'

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

Some Fall Color in McKittrick Canyon

Culberson County, Texas

McKittrick Canyon

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

Steam coming from pool during frozen daytime temperatures

Balmorhea, Texas

Balmorhea State Park Pool

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

Old Tunnel Bat Colony

Fredericksburg, Texas

Old Tunnel Bat Colony

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

The Traveling Man

Dallas, Texas

The Traveling Man

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 U-Drop Inn and Tower Station.

Shamrock, Texas

U-Drop Inn

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

Deer at the Quadrangle.

San Antonio, Texas

The Fort Sam Houston Quadrangle and Museum

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

The Buckhorn Saloon and Museum.

San Antonio, Texas

Buckhorn Saloon and Museum

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A Moonlight Tower at night

Austin, Texas

Austin Moonlight Towers

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

Mission San Jose

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose

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

Curia Arcanum

Austin, Texas

Curia Arcanum

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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