Holiday Inn - Port Aransas, TX

Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Texas

While in Texas, you might enjoy a visit to:

"Death Be Not Unprofessional" could be the motto of this impressive collection of caskets, hearses, and other relics of the funeral industry.
~180 miles from Port Aransas.

You have to be highly motivated to drive all the way down to Lajitas, but where else can you see a beer-drinking goat?

Blarney Stone and Irish-themed town of Shamrock, Texas.

This World Spinach Capital celebrates its local spinach industry with two Popeye statues.
~179 miles from Port Aransas.

Four Muffler Men owned by Glenn Goode, self-proclaimed Fiberglass Man, stand in rural Gainesville.

Faithful, roughly three-quarter-size, replica of the Druid original in England. Why it was built is, well, a mystery.

The skull and hide of an elephant that went berserk in 1929 are preserved in Carmack Watkins' personal museum.

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