Places ladytecate Wants to Go

An underground river pushes more than 200 million gallons out of this Missouri spring every day.

One of the deepest springs in Missouri.

It's as if the herds walked straight out of a fairy tale into the Missouri wilds.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Victims of the Webster Massacre are buried here in a mass grave.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Located in the place where the Columbia space shuttle came down, a museum-memorial that is both touching and informative.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

It's said this geological anomaly was caused when the Devil took a bite out of the Irish mountainside.

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

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.