Places alwaysheartshapedboxes Wants to Go

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

This twisty sign depicts the chain's first logo.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Home to two notable early-20th-century Black educators, Lucy Slowe and Mary Burrill.

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.

In Parr Park, thousands of painted rocks line this walking trail.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

A unique cartoon-filled roadside attraction.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

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.

Site of the 1926 murder trial of Ernest Burkhart who was involved in the "Reign of Terror."

A small wooden boat once owned by legendary actor Errol Flynn sits inside this Oklahoma gas station.

Claims to be the "World's Highest Hill."