Places aeholmquist Wants to Go

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

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

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Amateur taxidermy museum known for its large collection of white squirrels.

Where experiments are conducted on all things wood.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

This cave holds a surprisingly colorful variety of geological oddities.