Places flblom Wants to Go

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Home of the "true" equator.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

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

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.

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

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.