Places James Ricci Wants to Go

A mother's mourning for her lost son is remembered in this small park embedded with his memory.

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

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

"They died with their boots on."

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

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

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

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

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.