Places Adventure Monkey Wants to Go

San Antonio's first 3-D stereoscopic mural is a trippy treat for the eyes.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

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

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

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

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

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

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

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