Places maurverick Wants to Go

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

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

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

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

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

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

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

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

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

This hidden 13th-century tavern room has a few Shakespearean connections.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.