Phoenix, Arizona
Octobass
The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Phoenix, Arizona
The massive, incredibly rare instrument is over 11 feet tall with a range so deep it goes lower than humans can hear.
Phoenix, Arizona
A towering bronze statue memorializes the founding father of postwar American conservatism.
Phoenix, Arizona
The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.
Chandler, Arizona
A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.
Casa Grande, Arizona
Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)
Picacho, Arizona
Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.
Tucson, Arizona
A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.
Tucson, Arizona
The Magical World of George Phar Legler.
Alamogordo, New Mexico
This is one really big nut.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Fort Stockton, Texas
The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.
Houston, Texas
There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...
Burnet, Texas
This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.
Llano, Texas
This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Austin, Texas
A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.
Austin, Texas
Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.