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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

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

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

An off-the-beaten path cave with an underground lake.

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

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

"They died with their boots on."

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

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

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

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

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.