Places amtneer Wants to Go

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

The only international border marker within the United States.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

A standing relief of a Norman knight whose posture marks him as a Crusader.

This single room has survived the centuries with almost no deterioration.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

Petrified footprints of one of the very first vertebrates to walk on land.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.