The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A small town built on an abandoned airfield has former runways as streets and a bar and grill in an old airplane hangar.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

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

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

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

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

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

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

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

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

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.