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Laredo, Texas

World Trade Bridge

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.
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College Station, Texas

Century Tree

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
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Huntsville, Texas

Sam Houston Statue

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
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Nacogdoches, Texas

Old Stone Fort

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.
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Dallas, Texas

Texas Centennial Art Deco Buildings

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
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College Station, Texas

Bottle Cap Alley

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

Caddo Lake

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.
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Houston, Texas

Palace of the Golden Orbs

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.
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Galveston, Texas

S. S. Selma

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

Palo Duro Canyon

The Grand Canyon of Texas.
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Amarillo, Texas

Cadillac Ranch

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.
Austin, Texas

Congress Bridge Bats

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
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Austin, Texas

Mayfield Park

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
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Glen Rose, Texas

Dinosaur Valley State Park

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
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Fredericksburg, Texas

Enchanted Rock

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