Places sarahltait Wants to Go

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

A memorial dedicated to the Tejano superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez.

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

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

Local artists have long claimed these highway pylons as a place to celebrate Mexican-American history through artwork.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

One of the largest historical collections on Texas and the American West.

A former post office turned venue, food hall, and retail center.

A replica of a Dutch windmill in honor of those who settled in the region from the Netherlands.

A Prohibition-era casino once hidden as a palatial tea room.

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

Get your gift of the gab on Route 66.

The historic tall ship is one of just three of its kind still sailing open waters today.

Your one-stop-shop for antique tractor shows and emotional paintings of children championing livestock.

A park home to some unusually large rocks.

An Americana dreamscape.

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

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

A 17-foot-tall cutout of the Texas-born actor stands alongside the highway.