Places TxGirl Wants to Go

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

Named for a Greek oracle that interpreted the words of Zeus, this beautifully-restored manor home was once home to the architect of the Marshall Plan.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This nondescript row house in downtown Washington, D.C., was the home of a very secretive group for well over a century

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

Recorded as the first person buried in Arlington Cemetery.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

It was once the base for a series of domestic terror attacks.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

A hidden passageway now marks the site of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan that some say broke a 140-year-old curse.

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Cemetery officials are finally seeing that the Father of Texas Blues’ grave is kept clean.

Fans are known to leave tributes to these two brothers, both heavy-metal legends.