Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Texas

While in Texas, you might enjoy a visit to:

Huntington Sculpture Foundation presents over 50 monumental scale sculptures in granite, and granite combined with steel, bronze or copper.
~34 miles from Smithville.

Rural Texas town celebrates its watermelon industry with an annual festival and a year-'round majestic 'melon water tower.
~37 miles from Smithville.

About 100 concrete hippos are scattered throughout the "Hippo Capital of Texas," including a large one in front of the high school, in tribute to an escaped circus hippo.
~44 miles from Smithville.

Cave exposed by 1960s roadwork and turned into a commercial attraction -- features the "Lake of the Moon," and the "Flowing Stone of Time."
~52 miles from Smithville.

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