Places jcooney8051 Wants to Go

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

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

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

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

A local museum honors Wheeler native Alan Bean, the fourth man to walk on the moon.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

An amazing stag sculpture constructed entirely of discarded materials.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.