This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

These boots are made for selfies.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

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

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.