Places nlcrocker Wants to Go

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

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

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

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

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

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

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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