Places Christine Wants to Go

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

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

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

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

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

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

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

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

An eccentric park and pool.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.