Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

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

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Replica of an old Esso filling station, complete with Wayne gravity pump and outhouse.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This historic church houses the grave of a Scottish soldier who fought in the Battle of Waterloo.

Formerly the most gerrymandered district in the U.S., it twisted and turned along racial borders.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

This North Carolina grave is the final resting place of the world's most famous conjoined twins.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

Jule Körner's house full of bizarre architectural details.