Holiday Inn - South Padre Island, 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.

Big strawberries and strawberry art can be found around this small town, which holds an annual strawberry festival.

World's Largest Cowboy Boots are ready to kick s**t at the North Star Mall.

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

Is it possible to cheat death -- at least for a little while? Scientists say "No!" but an embalmed lizard in Texas seems to say "Yes!"

John Milkovisch drank 39,000 cans of beer, then decorated his house with the empties.

Probably the only museum in the world in which waitresses come up to you as you tour and ask, "Want a beer?"

Granbury is where America's most notorious outlaws came to die -- because they didn't die the first time.

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