Places rwelliott Wants to Go

This departure gate in Austin's airport sends travelers to over 120 imaginary destinations.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

A gigantic shoe, inspired by a nursery rhyme, sits in a park atop Mumbai’s Malabar Hill.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

The clock that sets them all.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This memorial pays homage to Pueblo's four Medal of Honor recipients.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.