Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

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

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

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

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

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

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

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

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

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

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.