Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

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

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

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

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

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

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

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

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

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.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

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

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

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

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

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

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

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.