Places DrFaustus Wants to Go

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

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

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

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

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