October 13, 2023 | By Andrea Luttrell
About 50 miles south of downtown Dallas on Interstate 35—when the strip malls of the metroplex give way to cornfields—a strange tower stands sentry over an empty field.
January 31, 2023 | By Loretta Fulton
The flying herd of buffalo towering over the eastern edge of downtown Abilene isn’t an illusion created by a blazing sun but the realization of local artist H.C.
December 24, 2022 | By Dale Weisman
“We called him Old Yeller. The name had a sort of double meaning. One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow, a color that we called ‘yeller’ in those days.
December 1, 2022 | By Layne Van Vranken
Every so often you’ll hear about an apparition or religious imagery taking form in the oddest of everyday objects.
October 26, 2022 | By Marisa Charpentier
If you’ve ever traveled through East Central Texas—say, from Austin or Dallas to College Station—you’ve probably passed through Hearne.
August 1, 2022 | By Marisa Charpentier
If you meet Yvonne “Bonnie” Palacios today, you’d be hard-pressed to learn she’s a six-time world champion baton twirler.
June 7, 2022 | By John Nova Lomax
March 17, 2022 | By Jacqueline Knox
It all started with a bunch of empty Lone Star Beer cans. In December 2013, J.P.
January 19, 2022 | By John Nova Lomax
January 7, 2022 | By John Nova Lomax
Imagine driving down State Highway 69 through south Beaumont and seeing a vintage oil derrick. Suddenly, a geyser of water spews from the top, shooting a full 100 feet in the air.
October 13, 2021 | By Tyler Stoddard Smith
There’s a line in Act IV of Hamlet, where Claudius says to Gertrude, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” Change the word “sorrows” to “bees,” and while the result may be an unpopular sentiment among Shakespeare scholars, it will assuredly resonate with people who have faced down the threat of a swarm of killer bees.
September 27, 2021 | By Paul Brown
Texas is so big, the landmarks available to visit seem endless: the Alamo, the State Capitol, and the State Fair’s Big Tex, just to name a few.
June 2, 2021 | By John Nova Lomax
Back in the spring of 1964, West Texans in towns like Iraan were in something of an existential crisis.
April 26, 2021 | By John Nova Lomax
Presiding over the southern approach to the rootin’ tootin’ cowboy town of Bandera, fixing its steady-yet-vacant gaze on the Medina River, is a giant polyurethane foam and fiberglass sculpture of a Longhorn skull.
March 4, 2021 | By Michael Corcoran
Drive on Farm-to-Market Road 535 through the Bastrop County town of Rockne and you may notice a bronze bust on a stone pedestal surrounded by a meditative garden.
February 10, 2021 | By John Nova Lomax
Befitting the enigmatic nature of their inspirations, the five Easter Island heads of Victoria are cloaked in mystery.
January 14, 2021 | By Michael Corcoran
Woody Guthrie is known as an Okie, but he spent eight formative years in the Texas Panhandle town of Pampa.
December 4, 2020 | By John Nova Lomax
The tip was cryptic, even by some of the other bare-bones offerings at Roadside America, a popular website for “offbeat tourist attractions.”
“Just driving along and all of a sudden… jumping cows and other sculptures appear to make you smile.
Published 10 times per year by the Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Highways, the official travel magazine of Texas, encourages travel to and within the Lone Star State and tells the Texas story to readers around the world.
