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Strange Museums

Museum of the Weird

Austin, Texas

Mummies, strange creatures, sideshow relics, wax monsters, mysterious specimens, and dime-museum spectacle are packed above a shop on Austin's Sixth Street.

Curious Landmarks

Eiffel Tower with Cowboy Hat

Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas built its own Eiffel Tower and then solved the obvious identity problem by placing a giant red cowboy hat on top.

Curious Landmarks

Beer Can House

Houston, Texas

A retired upholsterer covered his Houston home with tens of thousands of beer cans, turning aluminum siding, pull tabs, bottle caps, and cans into obsessive folk…

Curious Landmarks

Stonehenge II

Ingram, Texas

A Texas replica of Stonehenge stands at roughly 90 percent of the original monument's height, joined by two enormous Easter Island-style heads because one imitation landmark…

Roadside Attractions

Cadillac Ranch

Amarillo, Texas

Ten Cadillacs have been buried nose-first in a Texas field since 1974, where generations of visitors have buried them again beneath layer after layer of spray…

Giant Objects

World’s Largest Cowboy Boots

San Antonio, Texas

Two cowboy boots more than 35 feet tall stand outside a San Antonio shopping mall, large enough to make the people beneath them look like misplaced…

Giant Objects

Giant Dalmatian Fire Hydrant

Beaumont, Texas

A 24-foot-tall working fire hydrant painted in Dalmatian spots stands outside Beaumont's fire museum, because even giant plumbing apparently needs a dog theme.

Roadside Attractions

Cathedral of Junk

Austin, Texas

Behind an ordinary Austin house, decades of bicycles, hubcaps, bottles, ladders, appliances, cables, toys, and scrap have grown into a towering walk-through junk labyrinth.

Roadside Attractions

Prada Marfa

Valentine, Texas

A pristine luxury boutique sits alone beside a desert highway, permanently locked, stocked with Prada merchandise, and hundreds of miles from where anyone would expect to…

Strange Museums

Devil’s Rope Museum

McLean, Texas

A former factory in McLean contains an entire museum devoted to barbed wire, with fencing tools, wire variations, ranching history, and enough sharp metal to justify…

Strange Museums

National Museum of Funeral History

Houston, Texas

More than 30,000 square feet of hearses, caskets, embalming equipment, mourning objects, and funeral-industry history make death the main attraction at this Houston museum.

Roadside Attractions

Leaning Tower of Texas

Groom, Texas

A full-size water tower leans sharply beside old Route 66, not because it is falling over, but because a businessman deliberately tilted it to make drivers…