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San Antonio, Texas
The Alamo, founded in 1718 as the San Antonio de Valero mission, is where Texas defenders held out for 13 days before the Mexican army…
Galveston, Texas
Ashton Villa, an Italianate mansion on Galveston's Broadway, was built in 1859 for businessman James Moreau Brown and is one of the grand…
Mineral Wells, Texas
The Baker Hotel opened in 1929 as a 14-story resort of more than 400 rooms built for the mineral-water trade in Mineral Wells, and it…
Galveston, Texas
The Battleship Texas, commissioned in 1914, served in both world wars and is the last surviving dreadnought-era battleship. It spent…
Galveston, Texas
The Bishop's Palace, built in 1892 as the Gresham House for Colonel Walter Gresham, is a Victorian castle on Galveston's Broadway designed…
Saratoga, Texas
Bragg Road, known locally as Ghost Road, is a dirt road that began as a railroad bed through the Big Thicket and is famed for the Light of…
Waxahachie, Texas
The Catfish Plantation is a Victorian house on Water Street in Waxahachie, built in 1895, that served as a restaurant from 1984. Staff and…
San Patricio, Texas
Josefa "Chipita" Rodríguez, born in 1799, ran a stopover for travelers near the Aransas River. After a horse trader named John Savage was…
El Paso, Texas
Concordia Cemetery in El Paso was founded in 1856 and holds many thousands of burials, including the gunfighter John Wesley Hardin and…
Austin, Texas
The Driskill Hotel, built in 1886 by cattleman Colonel Jesse Driskill, is a landmark of downtown Austin and has long drawn ghost stories.…
San Antonio, Texas
The Emily Morgan Hotel, beside the Alamo, occupies a 1924 Gothic Revival building that was built as a medical office tower and became a…
Jefferson, Texas
The Excelsior House has welcomed travelers in Jefferson since 1858 and is known for a guest register said to include presidents and…
New Braunfels, Texas
The Faust Hotel opened in 1929 in downtown New Braunfels, built by Walter Faust. Staff have reported seeing the apparition of a man…
San Angelo, Texas
Fort Concho, on the Concho River in San Angelo, was a frontier army post from 1867 into the late 1880s and is among the best preserved in…
Fort Davis, Texas
Fort Davis, in the mountains of West Texas, was founded in 1854 to protect travelers on the road between San Antonio and El Paso and later…
Granbury, Texas
The Granbury Opera House, built in 1886 on the courthouse square, is a working theater in one of Texas's best-preserved small-town squares.…
San Antonio, Texas
The Gunter Hotel opened in 1909 in downtown San Antonio and is remembered as the place where blues musician Robert Johnson recorded in…
Mineral Wells, Texas
The Haunted Hill House in Mineral Wells was built in 1890 and stands a short walk from the Baker Hotel. It has been a private home, a…
Dallas, Texas
The Hotel Adolphus opened in 1912 in downtown Dallas, built by brewing magnate Adolphus Busch, and has hosted presidents, stars and…
Galveston, Texas
The Hotel Galvez, opened in 1911 on Galveston's Seawall, is the island's oldest surviving grand hotel and was built after the 1900…
Jefferson, Texas
The Jefferson Hotel occupies an 1851 building in Jefferson, once a busy steamboat port in East Texas and now known for its ghost walks.…
Houston, Texas
The Julia Ideson Building, completed in 1926 as Houston's central library and named for longtime librarian Julia Ideson, is a Spanish…
Houston, Texas
La Carafe is a candlelit bar in a building on Houston's Market Square that dates to before the Civil War, among the oldest in the city.…
Laredo, Texas
La Posada Hotel stands on the banks of the Rio Grande in downtown Laredo, next to St. Augustine Church, in a Spanish Revival building that…