A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.