Places sjgranai Wants to Go

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

Get up close with some alligators at this roadside farm attraction.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

A mammoth pair of Civil War artillery guns abandoned out in the forest.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.