Places LewisWasHere Wants to Go

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

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

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

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

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.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

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

Minnesota's oldest and deepest mine is now an underground physics laboratory.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

The park that the Chicago Stockyards built.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.