Austin, Texas
Mueller SunFlowers
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
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Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Canyon, Texas
The Grand Canyon of Texas.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Lubbock, Texas
This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Tilden, Texas
"They died with their boots on."
Lawton, Oklahoma
American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.
San Angelo, Texas
The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.
Noble, Oklahoma
A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.
Heavener, Oklahoma
One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.
Lawton, Oklahoma
Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.
Rockport, Texas
The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.
Hondo, Texas
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
Junction, Texas
A curious cone-shaped structure made of wire and covered with antlers.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
San Antonio, Texas
A priceless work of art created by the saint's own blood sister hangs in a San Antonio basilica.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.