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Texas: Dominion Approved

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Dr. Nika

My Dominion approved guide to Texas. Gothic bars, haunted bookstores & horror speakeasies for the ones who belong in the dark.

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Sections

Where I Drink

Where I Feast

Where I Sleep

What I Haunt

Where I Drink

My altars of the night. Come thirsty & leave claimed.

My candlelit limbo. Incense, art and candlelight after dark — Deep Ellum's most atmospheric room.

Ruins

My hidden phone booth. Enter through the phone booth under the Statler and drink bourbon where Dallas hides its secrets.

Bourbon & Banter

My bookcase door. A password-only basement behind a Fort Worth bookcase — craft cocktails in the dark.

Thompson's Bookstore Speakeasy

My horror speakeasy. A chainsaw on the wall, dolls in the red light — Dallas's most gloriously unhinged pour.

Red Headed Stepchild

My velvet secret. An invite-only Austin hideaway — velvet, low light and the hardest door in town.

Here Nor There

Where I Feast

My gothic table & the feasts I preside over. Dress dark & bring an appetite worthy of me.

My gothic supper. Macabre Hungarian fare in Deep Ellum — dark, dramatic and utterly delicious.

Armoury D.E.

My omakase altar. Austin's temple of Japanese precision. Order the tasting, surrender completely.

Uchi Austin

My Texas feast. The brisket that broke the internet — worth every minute in line.

Franklin Barbecue

Where I Sleep

I rest where the dead refuse to leave. Enter quietly & mind your manners.

My Stockyards ghosts. A Victorian inn in the Fort Worth Stockyards where the paranormal comes with the room.

Miss Molly's Hotel

My design temple. Gothic luxe rooms and a rooftop pool cantilevered over Main St. Dallas done right.

The Joule

My river sanctuary. 19th century brewhouse turned luxury hotel on the River Walk. History you can sleep in.

Hotel Emma

My Austin legend. 1886 grandeur with ghosts in the halls — the grande dame I check into when I want history with my haunting.

The Driskill - The Unbound Collection by Hyatt

What I Haunt

My hunting grounds for the curious & the cursed. Touch nothing without my permission.

My haunted maze. 80,000 books inside a former Fort Worth bordello — get lost on purpose.

Barber’s Book Store

My Denton haunt. A sprawling bookstore inside the old opera house — three floors of beautiful chaos.

Recycled Books Records CDs

My dime museum. Shrunken heads and sideshow acts preserved under glass — pure Austin weirdness on 6th Street.

Museum of the Weird

My quiet cathedral. Surrealist treasures and Byzantine ghosts. Free, hushed, holy.

The Menil Collection

My dark meditation. Fourteen canvases in near black. Sit in silence and feel everything.

Rothko Chapel

My junk cathedral. A towering shrine of found objects in South Austin — weird, wonderful, and worth the pilgrimage.

Cathedral of Junk