Weird history31.5298° N, 94.1135° W
San Augustine, TX
An archaeological and interpretive site preserving the story of an early Spanish mission established among the Ais people.
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- Open to visitors
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- Weird history32.2392° N, 94.9408° W
New London, TX
A museum devoted to the 1937 New London School explosion, one of the deadliest school disasters in American history.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history32.7618° N, 94.3482° W
Jefferson, TX
Jefferson's historic cemetery contains ornate Victorian-era monuments and graves tied to the river-port town's boom years.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history30.2763° N, 97.7250° W
Austin, TX
Austin's oldest city cemetery contains elaborate monuments, early Texas figures and layers of local death history.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history27.7922° N, 97.4032° W
Corpus Christi, TX
Texas' oldest federal military cemetery contains graves connected to the Mexican-American War and the early settlement of Corpus Christi.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history33.1920° N, 101.3836° W
Post, TX
The Old Post Sanitarium marker documents the early hospital established in Post in the 1910s and the development of organized medical care in the area. OddWay visitors are primarily stopping for the roadside historical plaque and exterior historic setting rather than a haunted-hospital experience.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history31.6546° N, 106.3032° W
Socorro, TX
A historic mission complex descended from one of the earliest Spanish mission communities in the El Paso valley.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history31.6191° N, 94.6498° W
Nacogdoches, TX
A reconstruction of the famous frontier Stone Fort preserves artifacts and stories from Spanish, Mexican, Republic and early statehood periods.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history29.2629° N, 94.8327° W
Galveston, TX
A roadside historical marker near Galveston's seawall commemorates the original St. Mary's Orphan Asylum and the devastating loss of the orphanage during the 1900 hurricane. The institution itself no longer stands here, so visitors are stopping for the plaque and the history of the former site.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history32.7561° N, 96.8222° W
Dallas, TX
A preserved rooming house where Lee Harvey Oswald lived under an assumed name in 1963. Visits are limited and typically arranged in advance.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Weird history25.9417° N, 97.2835° W
Brownsville, TX
The site of the last land battle of the Civil War, fought after the Confederacy had effectively collapsed elsewhere.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history26.0223° N, 97.4813° W
Brownsville, TX
The preserved landscape of the first major battle of the Mexican-American War includes trails and exhibits explaining the artillery duel and border conflict.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history34.9577° N, 101.6722° W
Canyon, TX
A reconstructed frontier dugout showing the partly underground shelter style used by early ranchers and settlers in the canyon country.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history34.9804° N, 101.9167° W
Canyon, TX
A huge regional museum with fossil material, Plains cultures, oil-boom artifacts, historic vehicles, firearms and recreated streetscapes spanning Texas Panhandle history.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history29.3217° N, 103.6146° W
Terlingua, TX
The crumbling desert residence of mining entrepreneur Howard E. Perry overlooks the former company town and survives as one of Terlingua's most recognizable ruins.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history35.2336° N, 100.5995° W
McLean, TX
A tiny restored 1929 Phillips 66 station representing the earliest standardized cottage-style stations used by the company along historic highways.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history35.2144° N, 100.2494° W
Shamrock, TX
A local-history museum inside a former hotel with pioneer, ranching and Route 66 material from the eastern Texas Panhandle.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history26.0763° N, 97.2088° W
Port Isabel, TX
The 1852 lighthouse is the only historic Texas lighthouse regularly open for climbing, with a reconstructed keeper's cottage beside it.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history28.6473° N, 97.3832° W
Goliad, TX
A fortified Spanish presidio tied to the Texas Revolution and the Goliad Massacre, with chapel, museum rooms and reconstructed defenses.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history30.1615° N, 96.3986° W
Brenham, TX
This stop is a Texas historical marker identifying the site of Rees Sanitarium, Brenham's first hospital, rather than an abandoned hospital visitors can enter. Travelers will find a roadside plaque explaining the former institution and its place in local medical history.
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- Roadside, no entry
- Weird history30.6101° N, 96.3401° W
College Station, TX
Texas A&M's deceased Reveille mascots are traditionally buried near Kyle Field with scoreboards positioned so the graves can face the field.
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- Seasonal or ticketed
- Weird history32.8149° N, 96.9445° W
Irving, TX
The suburban house where Marina Oswald stayed and where Lee Harvey Oswald spent the night before the Kennedy assassination has been restored as a museum.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history29.7284° N, 93.8988° W
Sabine Pass, TX
A coastal Civil War battlefield where a small Confederate force repelled a Union invasion fleet in 1863.
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- Open to visitors
- Weird history30.7233° N, 95.5509° W
Huntsville, TX
Sam Houston's grave is marked by a large sculptural monument in Oakwood Cemetery, linking one of Texas' most famous figures to Huntsville's historic burial ground.
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- Open to visitors