Places Spencer Darr Wants to Go

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.

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

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

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.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

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

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

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

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

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

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

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

Cockroach Museum features roach celebrities and live hissing cockroaches.

The only international border marker within the United States.

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