Places Deano Wants to Go

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

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

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."