Places abbarr Wants to Go

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

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

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

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

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

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

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

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

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

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

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

This is one really big nut.