Places ChristineBean Wants to Go

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

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

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

A pair of whimsical homes in Texas shaped like oversized Western wear.

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

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

Cemetery officials are finally seeing that the Father of Texas Blues’ grave is kept clean.

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

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.