Places sarahltait Wants to Go

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

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

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

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

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

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.