Places Deano Wants to Go

One of the largest historical collections on Texas and the American West.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

A sandstone canyon wilderness with a history of outlaws, mysterious disappearances, and a UFO encounter.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

This roadside establishment in between Houston and the Louisiana border has the largest alligator in captivity

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

This small, 19th-century structure is all the remains of a once lively travelers' inn that General Robert E. Lee frequented.

At Houston’s longest-running restaurant, find a classic oyster stew beloved by a former U.S. President.

A small section of native wilderness on a university campus

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

This otherwise unremarkable ski town building marks the site of Butch Cassidy's first robbery.

This bee-themed family business does more with honey than anyone would think was possible.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Only a few signs remain of the buried Colorado mining town that supplied the uranium for the first atomic bomb.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

The hallowed remains of a 900-year old Ancestral Pueblo great house.

A riverside tiny house with books and other treasures galore.

A hotel with a rich Wild West history of miners and bootleggers.