Places Heildegard Wants to Go

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

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

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

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

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

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

This unusual roadside attraction filled with handcrafted signage is home to a unique church.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.

A symbol of Texas pride.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

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