Places atecca Wants to Go

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Why settle for barbecue chips when you can get actual barbecue?

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

Local lore holds that Butch Cassidy took an escape route through Red Canyon's sandstone hoodoos after an attempted murder.

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.