The Colony, Texas
Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
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The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Houston, Texas
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
Ingram, Texas
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Wimberley, Texas
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.