Places canlarue Wants to Go

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

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

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

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

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

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

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.