Places Mohunch Wants to Go

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

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

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

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

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

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

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

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.