Places chrisawhite00 Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The final resting place and once home of the Bandit Queen of the West.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

This Lady Liberty is the oldest replica of its kind outside the state of New York.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

A prime example of New Orleans' unique architecture these early 20th century homes were built to look like steamboats.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

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