Places klcmaher Wants to Go

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

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

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

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

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

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

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

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

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

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.