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A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

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

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

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

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

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

This boulder stays on its mountain thanks to a huge chain and on the map due to local legend.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.