The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

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

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

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

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.