Places zdficken Wants to Go

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

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

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

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

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

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

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