Places michaelamiller Wants to Go

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

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

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

The only international border marker within the United States.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

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

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

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

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

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