Places SpaceBeagle Wants to Go

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

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

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

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

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

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

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

The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

A time-capsule monument reminding future generations of the importance of efficient and effective use of natural resources.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

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