Places lrachelle Wants to Go

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

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

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

A pair of whimsical homes in Texas shaped like oversized Western wear.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

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

The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

The first capital of Texas was actually in modern-day Louisiana.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.