Places ahale Wants to Go

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

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

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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

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

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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