Texas

by ebriellebooks

43 Places

Goatman's Bridge

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Carolinethrift

Added by Carolinethrift

Uncommon Objects

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Annetta Black

Added by Annetta Black

Museum of the Weird

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Dylan

Congress Bridge Bats

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

Dylan

Waxahachie, Texas

Munster Mansion

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Clinton

Added by Clinton

Museum of Natural and Artificial Ephemerata

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Added by dinosaursfeast

National Museum of Funeral History

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Royse City, Texas

Royse City Futuro House

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

amboy

Valentine, Texas

Prada Marfa

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

gabeschwartz

Added by gabeschwartz

Terlingua, Texas

Terlingua Ghost Town

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Clinton

Added by Clinton

Waxahachie, Texas

Webb Gallery

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Added by SJKvetko

Schulenburg, Texas

Painted Churches of Texas

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

lewblank

Added by lewblank

Mineral Wells, Texas

The Baker Hotel

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Added by Facebook1049881292

1890s Alien Gravesite

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Casa Neverlandia

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

ATX Mike

Added by ATX Mike

Elisabet Ney Museum

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Added by Facebook1105331016

Amarillo, Texas

Ozymandias on the Plains

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

Clinton

Added by Clinton

'Eye' Sculpture

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

K Cady

Added by K Cady

Old Bluffton Underwater Ghost Town

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Lauren J Young

Added by Lauren J Young

San Antonio, Texas

Mission San Jose

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Madiha Bataineh

Added by Madiha Bataineh

Grave in the Road

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Molly McBride Jacobson

Added by Molly McBride Jacobson

Public School 972

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

The Wilde Collection

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

Texas Eiffel Tower

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Added by MarindaBramlett

Fort Worth, Texas

Lee Harvey Oswald's Grave

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Added by kkysar

Baby Head Cemetery

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

EricGrundhauser

Added by EricGrundhauser

Brackettville, Texas

Alamo Village

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

Josh

Smither Park

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

kfsnook

Added by kfsnook

Hotel Paisano

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Jake Uitti

Added by Jake Uitti

'World's Largest Killer Bee'

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

timheaney

Added by timheaney

San Antonio, Texas

Alamo Cat Graves

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

John Wesley Hardin's Grave

A prison-like structure guards the remains of a notorious Old West outlaw.

josephwbeck

Added by josephwbeck

Apache Drive-In Theatre

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

Added by rederikked

San Antonio, Texas

Japanese Tea Garden

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

Palace of the Golden Orbs

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

lewblank

Added by lewblank

San Marcos, Texas

Freeman Ranch Body Farm

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

dtheodora

Added by dtheodora

Fort Worth, Texas

Man With a Briefcase

The man who wasn't there.

Added by dunwithluv

San Antonio, Texas

Rosita's Bridge

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

Bellville, Texas

Newman's Castle

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

San Antonio, Texas

'Johnny Loves Vivian' Bench

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

satxwdavis

Added by satxwdavis

Rapid City, South Dakota

Depression Era Dinosaur Park

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Dylan

Rapid City, South Dakota

Art Alley

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

Gregory T Janetka

Added by Gregory T Janetka

Toy Joy

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

muse2gaia

Added by muse2gaia