Places astrohans Wants to Go

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

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

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

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

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

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.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

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

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

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”