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The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

This small park features a monumental fountain wall, providing a great photo opportunity in the middle of Houston.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

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

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

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.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.