Places rel1005 Wants to Go

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

Where decommissioned airplanes and helicopters go to become part of Hollywood.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The man who wasn't there.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

An amazing stag sculpture constructed entirely of discarded materials.

A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

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

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

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