Places IronQueen Wants to Go

A 28-exhibit museum about the history, culture, and oddities of money. Visitors stand in a cash shower, try to crack a vault, and discover what it's like to barter when no money is allowed.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A symbol of Texas pride.

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 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.

A beautiful bronze sculpture by Danish designer Bjorn Wiinblad, who is indelibly tied to Dallas.

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

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

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

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

The home of a former Minor League baseball team that beat Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees in 1949.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

A remarkably futuristic building sits in the oldest town in Louisiana.

The first capital of Texas was actually in modern-day Louisiana.

An engraved granite slab claims to mark the location where Leif Erikson built his house in the year 1000.