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The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

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

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

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

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

The largest collection of political commercials in the world.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.