Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Texas

While in Texas, you might enjoy a visit to:

Well into his 90s, retired plumber-turned-artist filled his garage museum with 1,300+ fanciful toilet lid artworks that chronicled his life and the world around him.
~42 miles from San Marcos.

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.
~51 miles from San Marcos.

If you park your car in neutral, "child ghosts" may push it about 30 feet up a slight hill, onto a spot formally crossed by railroad tracks! The tracks were later removed -- but the ghosts won't leave.
~49 miles from San Marcos.

Huntington Sculpture Foundation presents over 50 monumental scale sculptures in granite, and granite combined with steel, bronze or copper.
~52 miles from San Marcos.

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