Places rrjw301 Wants to Go

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

A Prohibition-era casino once hidden as a palatial tea room.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Thousands of railroad artifacts are housed in one of the last remaining mission revival style train depots in the South.

The only international border marker within the United States.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

"They died with their boots on."

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

The Branch Davidian compound known as the Mount Carmel Center became the site of one of the most controversial law enforcement operations in U.S. history.

One man’s nostalgic collection of ’50s Americana

This small museum tells the story of Fort Worth's first and largest superstore.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.