Places smfallone Wants to Go

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

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.