A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

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

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

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

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

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

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.