Places AwkwardInPublic Wants to Go

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

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

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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