A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Once seen as a bit of an eyesore, this sculpture has become a staple of downtown Houston.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

The remains of an early 1900s dude ranch that operated until the 1970s.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

This unique landscape is the only place in the world to dig for hourglass-selenite crystals.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.