Places csieminski Wants to Go

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

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

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

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

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

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

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

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

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

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