Places SpaceBeagle Wants to Go

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

This small museum tells the story of Fort Worth's first and largest superstore.

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

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

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

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

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

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

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

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

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

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.