Places celiarosegoes Wants to Go

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

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.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

These boots are made for selfies.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

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

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

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

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.