Places sburke4444 Wants to Go

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

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

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

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

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.

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

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.