Places Kanashii Wants to Go

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

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

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

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.