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2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Cisco, Texas

Updated November 23, 2023

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Unusual Attractions in Cisco

Artificial cave built as animal shelter

Cisco, Texas

Old Zoo Nature Trails

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

Plaque at the former bank site.

Cisco, Texas

Site of the Santa Claus Bank Robbery

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

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Old Rip.

Eastland, Texas

Old Rip

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

9 miles from Cisco

Woody’s Classic Cars and Baseball Museum

Cross Plains, Texas

Woody’s Classic Cars and Baseball Museum

An Americana dreamscape.

21 miles from Cisco

The Robert E. Howard Museum.

Cross Plains, Texas

Robert E. Howard Museum

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

21 miles from Cisco

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