Places caraobrien Wants to Go

The first tourist attraction to offer tours for interstellar tourists.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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