Places ejcnimz Wants to Go

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

Eccentric sculpture garden brings Basque mythology to life.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

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

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

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

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

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

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

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

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

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

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