Huntsville, Texas
Captain Joe Byrd Cemetery
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
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Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Waco, Texas
Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.
College Station, Texas
Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.
College Station, Texas
Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Big Bend National Park, Texas
This gravity-defying rock formation is one of Big Bend’s natural wonders.
Corpus Christi, Texas
A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.
Brownsville, Texas
The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.
Brownsville, Texas
Wander among the gravestones in this historic border town.
Austin, Texas
Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.
Texas City, Texas
This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.
Galveston, Texas
The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.
Galveston, Texas
This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.
San Antonio, Texas
An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.
Austin, Texas
Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.
Glen Rose, Texas
This abandoned building made of petrified wood was once a hotspot for buying moonshine.
Glen Rose, Texas
A park home to some unusually large rocks.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Austin, Texas
After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.
Austin, Texas
This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.
Hondo, Texas
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
Burnet, Texas
An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.