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A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

A mysteriously abandoned campsite in San Angelo State Park.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.