Places sarahltait Wants to Go

A colorful public mural in San Antonio's West Side encourages students to stay in school.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

In 1977, wealthy socialite Sandra West was buried wearing an elegant white nightdress while reclining comfortably in her powder-blue 1964 Ferrari.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

An entire home filled with over 3,000 pieces of Santa memorabilia in glass cases, walls, on Christmas trees, and even in the bathroom.

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

A collection of obscure and vintage equipment used for television, film, and radio.

The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

A curious cone-shaped structure made of wire and covered with antlers.

Victims of the Webster Massacre are buried here in a mass grave.