Places Scott Terrell Wants to Go

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

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

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

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

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

An old abandoned pharmacy building in Texas is brimming with collectibles and images of the little tuxedoed pooch.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

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

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.