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This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

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

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

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

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

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

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

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

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

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

The easiest way to the highest point in Wyoming is only accessible via one hefty fee.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.