Places catboom Wants to Go

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A "Titanic" superfan changed his name to Jack and set up this strange shrine to the blockbuster, complete with Korean food and Tarot readings.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

Friendships have been forged over ham and eggs every Wednesday morning for a century.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

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.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.