Places KR Peart Wants to Go

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

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

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

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

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