Places McGee Travel Tales Wants to Go

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

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

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

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

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

This small museum contains fossils from an era when Kansas was underwater.

A Jurassic artscape composed of transmission casings and other mechanical parts.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

These otherworldly limestone formations jut out from the Kansas prairie.

Stories of sightless fish and ghostly cowboys are only a fraction of the legends surrounding this Kansas sinkhole.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.