Places Ryshili Wants to Go

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

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

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

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

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.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.