Places Mohunch Wants to Go

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."