This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

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

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

"They died with their boots on."

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.