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Texas Offbeat Attraction Map

RoadsideAmerica.com's map of Texas's unusual tourist attractions, museums, and landmarks.

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Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Texas

While in Texas, you might enjoy a visit to:

Hidalgo, Texas: Killer Bee Capital of the World

Hidalgo celebrates its unusual distinction of being the spot where killer bees first illegally crossed from Mexico into the U.S.
~135 miles from Portland.

Terlingua, Texas: Clay Henry - Famous Beer-Drinking Dead Goat

Clay Henry, who died in 1992, has been stuffed and mounted in the act of doing what he did best: chugging a Lone Star beer.

Stephenville, Texas: Moola the Cow

Our rural milk-machines are honored in frequent cement and fiberglass tributes. Meet Moola the Cow.

Houston, Texas: The Orange Show

Jeff McKissack, Houston postal worker, spent his Golden Years building a large, gaudy, strange folk art tribute to what he considered "the perfect food."
~176 miles from Portland.

Poteet, Texas: World's Largest Strawberry, Water Tower, Festival

Big strawberries and strawberry art can be found around town, which holds an annual strawberry festival.
~111 miles from Portland.

Corsicana, Texas: Two Heads of Black Diamond the Elephant

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

Glen Rose, Texas: Creation Evidence Museum

A small museum that not only refutes the "theory" of evolution but proves that Man and Dinosaur walked the earth at the same time.

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