Places stefaniemklett Wants to Go

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

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

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

One of the most remote spots in America and the first protected wilderness area in Nevada, named after an old legend.