Places brendalb1989 Wants to Go

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

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