A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

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

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

Tile mosaics and quotes from Pablo Picasso add an artistic flair to these bus stop benches.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

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

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

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

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

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.