Places Ramika Wants to Go

World's largest magnetic research facility.

An unusual college football tradition involves burying pieces of sod from competitors' turf, replete with tiny coffins and headstones.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

A trek through the solar system here on earth.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

View rare birds and interact with lemurs at this nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

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

This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

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.