Places ReisyD Wants to Go

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

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

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.

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

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

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

Located near the U.S.-Mexico border, this park remembers the famous raid of General Francisco “Pancho” Villa and his soldiers.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

A strange sandstone formation in the middle of nowhere presents an interesting climbing opportunity.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.

A beautiful red-faced slot canyon in northern New Mexico.