Places klcmaher Wants to Go

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

Viet-Cajun is a true hybrid cuisine that evolved in Houston and at this Asiatown mainstay, there’s more to it than just crawfish.

Whether or not you take the 72-ounce steak challenge, there’s plenty of history, fun and Texas-style food at this legendary stop along Route 66.

West African flavors shine at this unassuming strip mall spot in southwest Houston.

A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.

Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.

A rattlesnake museum showcasing over 30 species, in a century-old building that used to be the general store in this tiny West Texas town.

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

A former post office turned venue, food hall, and retail center.

The historic tall ship is one of just three of its kind still sailing open waters today.

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

A 17-foot-tall cutout of the Texas-born actor stands alongside the highway.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

This Choctaw/Thai restaurant celebrates Indigenous cuisines from different continents.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.

The former home of one of America's greatest short story writers is home to an annual pun competition.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.