Destructive children, start your engines.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

For nearly a century, one of the oldest barbershops in Texas has been cutting hair the old fashioned way.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

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

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.