Places afink Wants to Go

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

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

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

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

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

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

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

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.