Places mizmandi84 Wants to Go

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

These boots are made for selfies.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.