Places reaganmachugh Wants to Go

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

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

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

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.

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

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

One of the largest wildlife refuges in the contiguous 48 states, it was instrumental in preserving the pronghorn antelope from extinction.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

Take in the beauty of the Milky Way at one of the best sites for stargazing in Nevada—a state with some tough competition.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

Its founder calls it a "proletariat art renaissance".

An internationally-recognized dark sky sanctuary lies in northern Nevada, near the Oregon line.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.