Places smichaelwilson Wants to Go

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The man who wasn't there.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

True to his word, George Swanson is buried in his white 1984 Corvette.