The Legends of Texas Sports By the Numbers
Is Texas a big-time sports state? Historically speaking, the blue bloods of the sports world have operated on the ... Read More »
Four Hotels With Texas-Size Views
Stellar views have always been important to travelers—it’s why rooms overlooking the ocean, mountains, or a ... Read More »
Roadside Oddity: Sam Houston Statue
Sculptor David Adickes knew what a monumental character Sam Houston was when he set out to memorialize the man in ... Read More »
Old Bones Yield New Discoveries at the Waco Mammoth National Monument
Roughly 65,000 years ago, a nursery herd of female and young Columbian Mammoths roamed the basin between the ... Read More »
Take a Sip at the Longest Wooden Bar in Texas
I’m greeted by the golden glow of low-hung lamps reflecting off gleaming wood surfaces on a recent visit to the ... Read More »
Dallas’ New Skatepark Isn’t Clowning Around
If you brought your skateboard to Bachman Lake’s Clown Ramp in the 1980s, you would have seen legends like Dallas’ ... Read More »
The ‘UFO’ That Washed Ashore On South Padre Island
Nearly 6 miles north of South Padre Island's Beach Access #6 is what appears to be the remains of a UFO crash ... Read More »
The History Behind Texas’ First Woman Governor
Miriam Ferguson was an unlikely candidate for Texas governor when she ran on the Democratic ticket in 1924. A shy ... Read More »
Waco’s Dr Pepper Museum Explores the History of Convenience Stores
Although it now sits motionless, the green Model T truck housed in Waco's Dr Pepper Museum once sputtered loudly ... Read More »
Larry McMurtry’s Famous Bookstore Reopens as a Literary Center
Inside a one-story brick building at the center of Archer City’s main commercial street, surrounded by rows upon ... Read More »
Inside the Revitalized Historic Ottine Mineral Springs
I’m floating like a dumpling in one of the soaking pools at Ottine Mineral Springs, gazing up at the vine-covered ... Read More »
The Allen Company That Brings Prehistoric Creatures to Life
Lauren Billings’ biggest critics are kids. They’ll call her out if she refers to a Quetzalcoatlus as a ... Read More »
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