Places jlb6394 Wants to Go

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

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

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

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

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

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.