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

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

Center filled with hands-on displays served as a tribute to several astronauts with connections to the state.