Places angelsab Wants to Go

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

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

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

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

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

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

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

The man who wasn't there.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.