Places srhicks023 Wants to Go

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This set of hot springs also comes with fantastic views.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

After a short-lived attempt to bring America in line with the rest of the world, this road was left in metric.

The remote resting place of a notorious Wild West outlaw whose death is shrouded in mystery.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."