Places bluntforceM Wants to Go

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

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.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

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

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

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

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

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

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.