Places ambermriley Wants to Go

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

The mansion-like building is packed with Texas pride.

For nearly a century, one of the oldest barbershops in Texas has been cutting hair the old fashioned way.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

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

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

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

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

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

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

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

The founder of a utopian religious community based on the Golden Rule laid his son to rest on this grassy hill.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.