Places mary3moriarty Wants to Go

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

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

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

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

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

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

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

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

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

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

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

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.