Places stefaniemklett Wants to Go

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

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

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

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.