Places diowyn Wants to Go

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

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

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

Once seen as a bit of an eyesore, this sculpture has become a staple of downtown Houston.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

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

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.

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

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.