Places helitua Wants to Go

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

These boots are made for selfies.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

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

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.