Roadside oddities34.9851° N, 101.9242° W
Canyon, TX
A towering cowboy statue built in the 1950s to advertise a western store. Restored after decades of weather damage, he remains one of the Panhandle's best roadside giants.
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- Roadside, no entry
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Suggest a stopGiant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
- Roadside oddities29.5200° N, 98.4940° W
San Antonio, TX
These are Bob “Daddy-O” Wade’s “The Giant Justins,” created in 1979 for the Washington Project for the Arts. The 40-foot boots moved permanently to North Star Mall in San Antonio in 1980, where they remain an easy exterior photo stop and one of the city’s best-known pieces of oversized public art.
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- Roadside oddities29.7168° N, 95.3245° W
Houston, TX
A handmade architectural environment of mosaics, found objects, walkways and folk-art structures built by postal worker Jeff McKissack in praise of the orange.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities29.8793° N, 97.9391° W
San Marcos, TX
A historic commercial cave formed along the Balcones Fault, marketed for generations as a show cave and earthquake-created geological curiosity.
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- Open to visitors
- Roadside oddities33.5472° N, 97.8322° W
Bowie, TX
Bowie’s enormous steel knife was created as a civic landmark and earned Guinness recognition in April 2016. The 20-foot sculpture remains at the south entrance to town as a free roadside photo stop celebrating both the city name and the famous Bowie knife.
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- Roadside oddities31.0513° N, 98.1822° W
Lampasas, TX
Lampasas’ giant spur was forged by ironsmith Waylon Dobbs for local businesswoman Leah Caruthers and installed on March 14, 2016. The roughly 35-foot steel, copper and iron sculpture earned Guinness recognition and remains visible from U.S. 281 with parking available for photos.
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- Roadside, no entry