The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

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

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

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.