Places spocksackmary Wants to Go

For over 75 years, this cute stone statue has warmed the hearts of San Antonio.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

The oldest active mini golf course in the U.S. has an elegant Art Deco style filled with lush tropical plants.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

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

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

The only international border marker within the United States.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.