Places LeslieDriskill Wants to Go

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

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

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

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

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

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

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

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.