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

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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.

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