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Slug Bug Ranch
Conway, Texas
Five Volkswagen Beetles buried hood-down in the ground, an obvious parody of the nearby Cadillac Ranch.
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Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
Is it just a line of ten junker Cadillacs buried nose-down in a littered, dusty farm field -- or is it art?
National Museum of Funeral History
Houston, Texas
Caskets, hearses, and other funeral industry regalia, including JFK's original Eternal Flame, Truman's embalming machine, and a waxy Pope and Lincoln lying in coffins.
Big Texan Steak Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
Competitive Eating Heritage Trail: swallow a 72-oz. steak in an hour and it's free!
Cathedral of Junk
Austin, Texas
Vince Hannemann has been building a folk junk-art environment in his back yard since 1988. In 2019 he announced it was "99 percent complete."
Museum of the Weird
Austin, Texas
Monsters, UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot -- this small-but-enthusiastic museum in a gift shop covers it all. Don't miss the frozen missing link, and the sideshow theater performance. Open since 2007.
LBJ Museum and Library, With Robot
Austin, Texas
12-story cement block houses the history of Lyndon Johnson's presidency. Best of all: a life-size LBJ robot that tells G-rated versions of LBJ jokes.
Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum
Crosbyton, Texas
Largest Creation Fossil Museum in the world. Run by Joe Taylor, devoting considerable effort to proving that Man and Dinosaur walked together.
Old Rip, Miracle Horned Toad
Eastland, Texas
Is it possible to cheat death, at least for a little while? Scientists say "No!" but an embalmed lizard in Texas, visible through a window, croaks "Yes!"
Trigger Finger of Pancho Villa
El Paso, Texas
The amputated finger of the Mexican revolutionary is displayed in the window of Dave's Pawn Shop.
Glenn Goode's Big People
Gainesville, Texas
Multiple fiberglass giants, collected by Glenn Goode the self-titled Fiberglass Man, stand in a line on his property.
Creation Evidence Museum
Glen Rose, Texas
A small museum that not only refutes the "theory" of evolution but proves that Man and Dinosaur walked the earth at the same time.
Groom Cross: Titanic Texas Tribute
Groom, Texas
Heaven-scraping billboard of faith in the Texas panhandle.
Killer Bee Capital of the World
Hidalgo, Texas
Hidalgo celebrates its unusual distinction of being the spot where killer bees first illegally crossed from Mexico into the U.S.
Beer Can House
Houston, Texas
John Milkovisch drank 39,000 cans of beer, then decorated his house with the flattened empties.
The Orange Show
Houston, Texas
Jeff McKissack, postal worker, spent his Golden Years building a large, gaudy, strange folk art tribute to what he considered "the perfect food."
Space Center Houston
Houston, Texas
Walk through the world's only piggyback Space Shuttle, touch a moon rock in The Lunar Vault, take a tram tour of Historic Mission Control.
Giant Statue of Sam Houston
Huntsville, Texas
David Adicke's 67-foot-tall version of the biggest hero in Texas.
Texas Prison Museum
Huntsville, Texas
The home of "Old Sparky," the state's retired electric chair, as well as displays of prisoner contraband and the Death Gun of Bonnie Parker.
13-Ton Boulder Carved Into John Wayne's Head
Lubbock, Texas
A boulder that nearly caused carnage on a California freeway was transformed into a long-lasting indoor tribute to The Duke.
Full-size Replica 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!
World's Largest Cowboy Boots
San Antonio, Texas
The World's Largest Cowboy Boots are ready to kick s**t at the North Star Mall.
Buckhorn Saloon, Museum, and Texas Ranger Museum
San Antonio, Texas
See the Teddy Roosevelt chair made of 62 pairs of buffalo horns, and the 4,000-antler chandelier.
Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
The Colony, Texas
The late Barney Smith's collection of 1,400 artwork toilet seats is displayed in the main building of a food truck beer garden that opened in 2019.
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- Amarillo: Cadillac Ranch
- Amarillo: Big Texan Steak Ranch
- Amarillo: Jack Sisemore's RV Museum
- Austin: Cathedral of Junk
- Austin: Museum of the Weird
- Austin: LBJ Museum and Library, With Robot
- Austin: Your Essential Magnificence: Stick-Your-Head-Here Photo Op
- Brownsville: SpaceX Space Launch Site
- Canyon: Tex Randall, Big Texan
- Conlen: Tex, Scary Giant Cowboy
- Crosbyton: Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum
- Dallas: The Sixth Floor
- Eastland: Old Rip, Miracle Horned Toad
- El Paso: Trigger Finger of Pancho Villa
- El Paso: House of Sugar: Folk Art Confection [tips]
- Gainesville: Glenn Goode's Big People
- Glen Rose: Creation Evidence Museum
- Groom: Groom Cross: Titanic Texas Tribute
- Hidalgo: Killer Bee Capital of the World
- Houston: Beer Can House
- Houston: National Museum of Funeral History
- Houston: The Orange Show
- Houston: Eclectic Menagerie Park: Metal Sculptures [tips]
- Houston: Space Center Houston
- Huntsville: Giant Statue of Sam Houston
- Huntsville: Texas Prison Museum
- Lubbock: 13-Ton Boulder Carved Into John Wayne's Head
- McLean: Devil's Rope Museum: Barbed Wire
- Pittsburg: Full-size Replica Ezekiel Airship
- San Antonio: World's Largest Cowboy Boots
- San Antonio: Buckhorn Saloon, Museum, and Texas Ranger Museum
- San Augustine: Gary Brewer's Deck House [tips]
- Sulphur Springs: America's Only Public Bathrooms with See-Thru Walls
- The Colony: Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum
- Waco: Dr Pepper Museum