Places sjgranai Wants to Go

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

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

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.