Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

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

These boots are made for selfies.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

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

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

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.