The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

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

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A replica of a Dutch windmill in honor of those who settled in the region from the Netherlands.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.