College Station, Texas
Century Tree
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
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College Station, Texas
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
Big Bend National Park, Texas
An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Houston, Texas
The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.
Marfa, Texas
This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
Houston, Texas
A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Rocksprings, Texas
This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Phoenix, Arizona
Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.
New York, New York
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
New York, New York
Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.