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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:

Canyon, Texas: Tex Randall, Big Texan

A slim looming cowboy giant, standing here since 1959. Deteriorating, but preservationists may yet save him!

Houston, Texas: Beer Can House

John Milkovisch drank 39,000 cans of beer, then decorated his house with the flattened empties.
~156 miles from Rockport.

Houston, Texas: National Museum of Funeral History

"Death Be Not Unprofessional" could be the motto of an impressive collection of caskets, hearses, and other relics of the funeral industry.
~168 miles from Rockport.

Stephenville, Texas: Moola the Cow

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

Seguin, Texas: World's Second Largest Pecan

Nutty claim to fame made real by a statue on the courthouse lawn. It once was the world's largest.
~120 miles from Rockport.

Huntsville, Texas: Giant Statue of Sam Houston

David Adicke's 67-ft. tall version of the general who defeated Santa Anna's Mexican Army, was President of the Republic of Texas, Governor of the State of Texas, and a US Senator.

San Antonio, Texas: Buckhorn Saloon and Museum

Treasure-filled freak show -- "Five Museums in One" it boasts -- acquiring stuffed animals, horn and antler art, and weird wonders since the 1880s. Enjoy a beer while you admire a cathedral made of 50,000 matchsticks or an 8-legged, 3-eared lamb.
~130 miles from Rockport.

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