Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Texas

While in Texas, you might enjoy a visit to:

Rural Texas town celebrates its watermelon industry with an annual festival and a year-'round majestic 'melon water tower.
~23 miles from San Marcos.

Crowds gather every evening to watch 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats take flight from under the Congress Avenue Bridge.
~29 miles from San Marcos.

When visiting the Alamo, also visit the sarcophagus filled with the remains of all the dead defenders (inc. Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie), who were subsequently incinerated by the Mexicans in a bonfire.
~46 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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