Carthage, Texas
Last Remaining Boundary Marker for the Republic of Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
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Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
Texarkana, Texas
$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.
Durant, Oklahoma
No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.
Grand Saline, Texas
A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.
Corsicana, Texas
A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."
Italy, Texas
A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Dallas, Texas
A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Dallas, Texas
A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Dallas, Texas
This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.