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The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.

This abandoned building made of petrified wood was once a hotspot for buying moonshine.

Victims of the Webster Massacre are buried here in a mass grave.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

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

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

What was meant as an innocent piece of art has earned a reputation as the "mansplaining sculpture."

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

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.