This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

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

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

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This abandoned building made of petrified wood was once a hotspot for buying moonshine.

Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.

This small park features a monumental fountain wall, providing a great photo opportunity in the middle of Houston.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

The first Russian Orthodox church in North America and an Alaskan landmark.

One poet's handmade, anachronistic home.