Places julirenner Wants to Go

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

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

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

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