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A historic fort commemorating the United States' naval history.

Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

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

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

An urban laboratory.