Places The Detour Effect Wants to Go

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

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

A unique cartoon-filled roadside attraction.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

This historic Ellinwood hotel is also home to underground tunnels that were a popular haunt during Prohibition.

After retiring, Gary Pendergrass turned his yard into a wonderland of outsider art.

This three-dimensional brick mural is the longest of its kind in the United States.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.