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Ft. Worth: Last Supper Wax Back
Ft. Worth - For a dozen years a life-size wax version of The Last Supper has languished in a Texas closet, the heads of Jesus and his disciples stored in boxes. Delays kept it there despite promises of its return in 2005 and 2007 and 2008. Full story
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Featured Attractions
Ezekiel Airship
Pittsburg, Texas
A century after a preacher-inventor built an airship described in the Bible, this museum exhibits a replica near where it flew -- before the Wright Brothers!
Buckhorn Saloon and Museum
San Antonio, Texas
Thousands of dead animals and dead animal parts for your enjoyment. Don't miss the 4,000-antler chandelier and the chair made for Teddy Roosevelt out of 62 pair of buffalo horns.
Dr Pepper Museums
Dublin and Waco, Texas
The story of the "distinctively different" brain tonic turned soda pop is told at two museums in old bottling plants.
Cathedral of Junk
Austin, Texas
Man assembles discarded tools, toys, appliances into sublime sanctuary in his back yard.
Forbidden Gardens
Katy, Texas
"Discover the mysteries of Imperial China" in this theme park of miniature replicas.
Cascade Caverns
Boerne, Texas
A dinosaur and an underground waterfall await you at this cave attraction west of San Antonio.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Acton: Smallest State Park in Texas
- Amarillo: Big Texan Steak Ranch
- Amarillo: Cadillac Ranch , Huge legs [tips]
- Amarillo: Helium Time Column Monument [tips]
- Arlington: Witness Tree Memorial Stump
- Aurora: Space Alien Pilot Buried Here
- Austin: Bat Bridge
- Austin: Cathedral of Junk
- Beaumont: Gusher Monument and Oil Boomtown
- Beaumont: World's (3rd) Largest Fire Hydrant
- Benbrook: Vernon Castle Crash Site
- Boerne: Cascade Caverns [tips]
- Canadian: Gene Cockrell's Roadside Sculptures
- Canyon: Tex Randall
- Cleburne: Rotten Old Merman [tips]
- Clyde: Atlas ICBM Highway
- College Station: George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
- College Station: Reveille, Dead Mascots
- Conlen: Scary Cowboy Giant
- Conway: VW Slug Bug Ranch [tips]
- Corsicana: Two Heads of Black Diamond
- Cross Plains: Museum to the Creator of Conan the Barbarian
- Crystal City: Popeye Statue
- Dallas: Conspiracy Museum
- Dallas: Dealey Plaza
- Dallas: Giant Giraffe Statue [tips]
- Dallas: Kennedy Cenotaph
- Dallas: The Sixth Floor
- Decatur: Petrified Wood Gas Station, Cafe, Motel
- Dilley: Watermelon Capital of Texas
- Dublin: Dr Pepper Museum
- Eastland: Old Rip
- El Paso: Sierra de Christo Rey [tips]
- El Paso: US Border Patrol Museum [tips]
- Fort Stockton: Paisano Pete [tips]
- Fort Worth: House Moving Museum [tips]
- Fort Worth: 2nd Oldest Continuously Burning Light Bulb
- Fredericksburg: Bush Gallery of the Pacific War [tips]
- Freer: World's Largest Rattlesnake [tips]
- Gainesville: Glenn Goode's Big People
- Georgetown: Inner Space Caverns [tips]
- Glen Rose: Dinosaur Valley State Park
- Glen Rose: Creation Evidence Museum
- Granbury: Outlaw Relocation Program
- Grand Prairie: Chromosaurs [tips]
- Grand Saline: Salt Palace
- Greenville: Audie Murphy, America's Most Decorated Soldier
- Groom: Largest Cross in the Western Hemisphere [tips]
- Hidalgo: World's Largest Killer Bee
- Houston: Art Car Museum [tips]
- Houston: Beer Can House
- Houston: National Museum of Funeral History
- Houston: The Flower Man
- Houston: The Orange Show
- Houston: Transparent Woman
- Hunt: Stonehenge II
- Huntsville: Texas Prison Museum
- Huntsville: Giant Sam Houston statue
- Iraan: Ally Oop Land [tips]
- Katy: Forbidden Gardens
- Lajitas: Beer-Drinking Goat
- Lubbock: Buddy Holly [tips]
- Luling: Watermelon Thump and water tower
- Marfa: Marfa Ghost Lights [tips]
- Muleshoe: World's Largest Muleshoe
- Odessa: World's Largest Jackrabbit
- O'Donnell: Dan Blocker Monument
- Oplin: Missile Base Bachelor Pad
- Paris: Eiffel Tower Replica
- Pittsburg: Ezekiel Airship
- Pittsburg: Giant Bo Pilgrim Head
- Plano: Cockroach Hall of Fame [tips]
- Poteet: World's Largest Strawberry
- San Antonio: Gravity Hill [tips]
- San Antonio: Buckhorn Saloon & Museum
- San Antonio: Toilet Seat Museum
- San Antonio: World's Largest Boots
- San Antonio: Wooden Nickel Museum [tips]
- San Marcos: Wonder World [Mystery Spots]
- Santo: Bayou Bob's Rattlesnake Ranch
- Seguin: World's Second Largest Pecan
- Seguin: World's Largest Mobile Pecan
- Shamrock: Blarney Stone
- Snyder: White Buffalo
- Stephenville: Moola the Cow
- Sulphur Springs: Southwest Dairy Center and Museum, Big Cows [tips]
- Tyler: Shorty the Squirrel
- Waco: Branch Davidian Compound Site
- Waco: Dr Pepper Museum
- Warrenton: World's Smallest Catholic Church
- Waxahachie: Unrequited Love Carvings
- Weatherford: Peter Pan Statue [tips]
