Places pasharp1031 Wants to Go

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

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

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

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

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

Every Christmas, one Arizona city makes the most of its dry climate by creating an arid desert tannenbaum.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

Hidden among the multi-million dollar mansions in the Santa Cruz hills is a sanctuary for troubled birds.