Places spocksackmary Wants to Go

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

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

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

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

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

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

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

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.