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It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

These boots are made for selfies.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

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

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

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.