Mineral Wells, Texas
Mineral Wells Fossil Park
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
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Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Galveston, Texas
A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.
San Antonio, Texas
A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.
Marfa, Texas
Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Terlingua, Texas
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
San Antonio, Texas
This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.
Culberson County, Texas
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.
Houston, Texas
Beer lover's can-covered house.
Burnet, Texas
This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Austin, Texas
This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.
Houston, Texas
A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
San Antonio, Texas
A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Houston, Texas
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
Waxahachie, Texas
It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Houston, Texas
There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...
Canyon, Texas
The Grand Canyon of Texas.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Rocksprings, Texas
This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.