Katy, Texas
World’s Longest Car Wash
255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.
Places I've been
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Katy, Texas
255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.
Austin, Texas
Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.
Galveston, Texas
This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
El Paso, Texas
The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.
Groom, Texas
This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
San Antonio, Texas
This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.
Amarillo, Texas
These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.
San Antonio, Texas
The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.
Houston, Texas
An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.
Austin, Texas
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.
San Antonio, Texas
A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.
Amarillo, Texas
A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.
Shamrock, Texas
Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
San Antonio, Texas
These boots are made for selfies.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Bastrop, Texas
The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.
Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.