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.

Hidalgo, TX, celebrates its unusual distinction of being the spot where killer bees first illegally crossed from Mexico into the U.S.
~138 miles from Ingleside.

John Milkovisch drank 39,000 cans of beer, then decorated his house with the empties.
~170 miles from Ingleside.

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.
~170 miles from Ingleside.

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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