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

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

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

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

This vessel is believed to be the oldest operating fireboat in the world.

The site of William McKinley's tragic assassination is only marked by an underwhelming boulder.

This unique crypt designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for his longtime friend was not completed in either man's lifetime.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.