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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

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

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

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

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

One of the few Glatt kosher delis in the United States is a cornerstone of its Hasidic neighborhood.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.