Roadside oddities30.5827° N, 97.6871° W
Georgetown, TX
A large cave discovered accidentally during interstate construction, now offering developed and adventure tours through fossil-rich chambers.
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- Open to visitors
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Suggest a stopGiant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
- Roadside oddities31.4477° N, 100.4373° W
San Angelo, TX
A specialized public garden containing an unusually large collection of waterlilies, including rare and hybrid varieties.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities31.8481° N, 102.3677° W
Odessa, TX
A giant jackrabbit statue celebrating the long-running local jackrabbit-roping legend and Odessa's fondness for oversized public art.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities29.6105° N, 100.4497° W
Brackettville, TX
A rugged state park protecting Kickapoo Cavern, Stuart Bat Cave and other karst features. Cave entry and bat viewing are controlled to protect resources.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities30.6844° N, 98.3510° W
Burnet, TX
A long limestone cavern sculpted by ancient underground water, layered with outlaw, dance-hall, wartime and Civilian Conservation Corps stories.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities31.7587° N, 106.4794° W
El Paso, TX
A large 1875 adobe residence blends Territorial, Greek Revival and Mexican building traditions and preserves the story of a prominent borderlands family.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities30.6716° N, 104.0227° W
Fort Davis, TX
A major astronomical observatory high in the Davis Mountains, known for giant research telescopes, star parties and unusually dark skies.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities31.7942° N, 106.5891° W
Sunland Park, TX
A monumental limestone statue of Christ stands atop the mountain overlooking Texas, New Mexico and Mexico. Access is generally safest during organized pilgrimages and events.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities32.3760° N, 96.8414° W
Waxahachie, TX
A full-scale fan-built recreation of the house from The Munsters, complete with elaborately replicated rooms and props. Tours are by appointment.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities29.6925° N, 98.3428° W
San Antonio, TX
Texas' largest commercial cavern attraction, with vast chambers, active formations and multiple developed underground tour routes.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities30.2609° N, 97.7449° W
Austin, TX
A giant stylized bat sculpture at the Congress Avenue bridge honors the enormous Mexican free-tailed bat colony that emerges from beneath the bridge.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities31.7571° N, 102.4783° W
Odessa, TX
A broad, shallow impact crater complex created by an iron meteorite. A small museum and trail explain the impact and the site's scientific history.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities32.9236° N, 99.2291° W
Albany, TX
The state historic site maintains the Official State of Texas Longhorn Herd, preserving bloodlines tied to the cattle that defined the frontier range.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities30.1012° N, 98.8209° W
Fredericksburg, TX
An abandoned railroad tunnel now shelters millions of Mexican free-tailed bats and cave myotis, producing huge seasonal evening emergences.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities30.8895° N, 102.8799° W
Fort Stockton, TX
A giant roadrunner statue that has become Fort Stockton's signature roadside mascot.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities34.9497° N, 101.6709° W
Canyon, TX
The park's signature hoodoo resembles a stone lighthouse rising from the canyon floor. It is reached by the Lighthouse Trail and is one of the most distinctive natural formations in the Panhandle.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.7163° N, 95.3978° W
Houston, TX
Jim Love created “Paul Bunyan Bouquet No. 2” in 1968, turning heavy industrial forms into a whimsical monumental bouquet. The sculpture is on the Rice University campus in Houston rather than West University Place, and travelers can see it as part of the university’s outdoor public-art collection.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities30.6035° N, 104.5185° W
Valentine, TX
A permanently sealed faux Prada storefront standing alone in the West Texas desert. The installation is both minimalist art and one of the state's most surreal roadside scenes.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Roadside oddities33.5962° N, 101.8302° W
Lubbock, TX
A city park colony founded in the 1930s specifically to preserve and display black-tailed prairie dogs.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.6288° N, 97.9696° W
Seguin, TX
The giant pecan associated with this record is at the Texas Agricultural Education & Heritage Center in Seguin, not Geronimo. Seguin unveiled the 16-foot-long fiberglass pecan in 2011 to regain a “world’s largest” title, although a still larger Texas pecan surpassed it in 2025; travelers can see the monument on the Big Red Barn grounds during public access.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Roadside oddities35.1932° N, 101.7716° W
Amarillo, TX
A tongue-in-cheek companion to Cadillac Ranch built from partially buried Volkswagen Beetles. The installation was relocated to Amarillo and remains a paint-friendly Route 66 photo stop.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.7164° N, 95.3240° W
Houston, TX
A public folk-art park covered in mosaics and found-object sculpture by dozens of artists working in the tradition of the nearby Orange Show.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities30.0798° N, 99.2395° W
Ingram, TX
A Texas Hill Country replica of Stonehenge, accompanied by large Easter Island-style heads, now preserved on the grounds of the Hill Country Arts Foundation.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities31.8902° N, 102.3299° W
Odessa, TX
A full-size horizontal-dimension replica of Stonehenge built from massive limestone blocks on the University of Texas Permian Basin campus.
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- Open to visitors