This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

These faux-cliff dwellings allow visitors to climb around on a replica archaeological site.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

In a small Japanese garden off a busy Denver street, a memorial to a brave, principled politician.

An innovative local park built from an abandoned sewage treatment plant.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

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

The man who wasn't there.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.