Bandera, Texas -
Frontier Times Museum - 2-Headed Things

Frontier Times is a wonderful, eclectic museum located in Bandera, TX and established in 1933. Their collections are drawn from the world over, and include interesting taxidermy specimens (of note is the two-faced kid goat), a pair of dressed fleas, items from both world wars, an amazing fossil-encrusted fireplace, and a shrunken human head. There are about 35,000 other interesting things to enjoy (not to mention the clean restroom).

The staff is friendly and helpful. Mentioned in the 1997 post on FTM is a local restaurant - OST (Old Spanish Trail), with the John Wayne room and delicious southwestern fare. One unrelated bonus, sighted in the parking lot of Church's Fried Chicken (1014 Main Street) boasts an impressive chicken-mobile. [blythe gorman, 07/14/2010]

There's a great museum in Bandera, Texas that also houses some of those "dressed fleas"[RA: such as seen at the Belhaven Museum]. The have pictures, monuments, statues and lots of other crap that I found very interesting. They have a 2-headed goat and the skeleton of something else 2-headed. Teeth, dolls, Antique dresses, quilts, etc. Enjoying good geology, I must tell you that they have the neatest fireplace in there made out of this type of marine invertebrate fossil. Of course they don't know what it is, but up there in the hill country you will find lots of limestone deposits, mostly Cretaceous, because all of that was a warm, clear, shallow sea at one time.

I recommend the local cafe too. It's got about a hundred pictures of John Wayne, a cool spur collection, the barstools are saddles, and the salad bar is in a covered wagon. [Jessica Richard, 10/10/1997]