Places Pengwn Wants to Go

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

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

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

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

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

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

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

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

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

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

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

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

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

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

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

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.