Places chrystalnause Wants to Go

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

An amazing stag sculpture constructed entirely of discarded materials.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.