Places kfolsom Wants to Go

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

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

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

Beneath the surface, something slithers. And if you find it, prepare to be slimed and glowing.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.