Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Texas

While in Texas, you might enjoy a visit to:

Plain cedar benches became the center of controversy in 1949 when the ladies of Whitney, offended by bench-loads of cussing, spitting, whittling men, demanded that they be moved to an alley. Refurbished benches are outside the museum, which exhibits the Life magazine story on the ultimate victor.
~35 miles from Robinson.

Cave exposed by 1960s roadwork and turned into a commercial attraction -- features the "Lake of the Moon," and the "Flowing Stone of Time."
~68 miles from Robinson.

Big dino statues from the 1964 NY World's Fair stand near a riverbed full of authentic dinosaur footprints.
~68 miles from Robinson.

Paintings that depict a post-Lincoln assassination John Wilkes Booth line the walls of the Nutshell restaurant.
~78 miles from Robinson.

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