Places rootsxbones Wants to Go

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

A century-old local legend surrounds the grave of Barbara Snyder due to its eerie epitaph.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.