Places smichaelwilson Wants to Go

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

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

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.