Places julialalexander Wants to Go

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

These boots are made for selfies.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

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

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

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

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.