Places posturethecat Wants to Go

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

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

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

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

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

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

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

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

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

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

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

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

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.