Places ldoucet Wants to Go

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

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

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.