Places Caroline Thrift Wants to Go

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

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

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

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

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

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

This highway overpass was named after the tragic disappearance of a young mother who got mixed up with the wrong people.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

Celebrate the history of the rich and truly misunderstood relationship between man and pigeon.

The only international border marker within the United States.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

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

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.