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The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

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

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

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

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

An oasis of lilies cultivated by the "Indiana Jones of Water Lilies."

In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

One nutty businessman’s unique tribute to an ancient tool.

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

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.