One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

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.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.