Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

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

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

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

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

The cemetery was built for the Spanish colonial elite, but its most famous residents were all buried in unmarked graves.

A monument to the conquistador became increasingly controversial in the very city that he founded.

The mysterious empty cupola behind the monumental arch points to an ancient prophecy of Delhi.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.