Places texastessa1 Wants to Go

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

One of the largest and oldest caravansaries in Persia.

This network of narrow, medieval passages has the most delightful name.

This lonely tower survived the landslide that devastated much of a Mexican mining town.

This sprawling woodland estate was the brainchild of iconic American industrial designer Russel Wright.

This amazing trail among the many waterfalls around Ingleton has been enchanting visitors since 1885.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

This is the house that spite built.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

A tiny, heartwarming piece of art hiding in plain sight.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.