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Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Texas

While in Texas, you might enjoy a visit to:

Unusual sculptures include a once nude cheerleader in Gene's yard, and a huge dinosaur on a hill above US 60.

A cool cowboy giant, standing here in Canyon, Texas since 1959.

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

This World Spinach Capital celebrates its local spinach industry with two Popeye statues.

Jeff McKissack, Houston postal worker, spent his Golden Years building this gaudy, strange tribute to what he considered "the perfect food."

This isn't just an Eiffel Tower replica in a town named Paris. It's an Eiffel Tower replica with a big cowboy hat in a town named Paris.

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.

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