Places Peetah Wants to Go

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

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

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

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

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The man who wasn't there.

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

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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 school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.