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Seguin, Texas
The Magnolia Hotel in Seguin began as a log cabin built in 1840 by James Campbell, was a stagecoach stop from the late 1840s into the 1880s…
San Antonio, Texas
The Majestic Theatre, opened in 1929 in downtown San Antonio, is an atmospheric movie palace designed by John Eberson, with a ceiling of…
Marfa, Texas
The Marfa Lights are glowing orbs reported over the Mitchell Flat south of Highway 90 in West Texas, with accounts traced in local…
San Antonio, Texas
The Menger Hotel, opened in 1859 beside the Alamo, is the oldest continuously operating hotel in Texas and one of the most storied. Its…
Fort Worth, Texas
Miss Molly's Hotel is a small bed and breakfast in the Fort Worth Stockyards in a building that local history says once served as a…
Goliad, Texas
Mission Espíritu Santo, within Goliad State Park, was a Spanish mission founded in 1722 and moved to this site in 1749. The Native peoples…
Granbury, Texas
The Nutt House Hotel stands on the Granbury square in a hand-cut limestone building opened as a mercantile by the Nutt brothers in 1893 and…
Copper Canyon, Texas
Old Alton Bridge, an iron truss bridge built in 1884 over a creek between Denton and Copper Canyon, carried traffic until 2001 and is now a…
Granbury, Texas
The Old Jail Museum on the Granbury square is a two-story limestone jail built in 1885 that held Hood County prisoners from 1886 until…
Canyon, Texas
The Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum on the West Texas A&M campus in Canyon is one of the largest history museums in Texas, with…
Goliad, Texas
Visitors and staff at Presidio La Bahía speak of a small priest in the chapel yard, a cold, misty corner, sighs and moans, and a woman…
San Antonio, Texas
Staff and visitors at San Fernando Cathedral have reported shadowy figures near the altar, voices with no clear source, orbs in…
Shafter, Texas
Shafter was a silver-mining town named for Colonel William Shafter after a rancher's 1880 find, and its mines produced more than 32 million…
San Antonio, Texas
The Spanish Governor's Palace, built in 1749 as the commandant's house of the Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, is the last standing piece of…
San Antonio, Texas
The St. Anthony Hotel opened in 1909 in downtown San Antonio and is one of the city's grand historic hotels. Guests and staff tell of a…
Port Aransas, Texas
Guests at the Tarpon Inn have reported footsteps overhead, cold spots, voices, a pink glow in the bathroom at night, a woman standing at…
Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua was a quicksilver (mercury) mining town built around the Chisos Mining Company after cinnabar was found in 1884, with about 2,000…
San Antonio, Texas
Terrell Castle, also called The Lambermont, is a castle-style mansion on East Grayson Street built in 1894 for Edwin Holland Terrell, a…
Austin, Texas
The Texas Governor's Mansion in downtown Austin, a Greek Revival house completed in 1856 for Governor Elisha Pease, has been home to…
Fort Worth, Texas
Thistle Hill, also called the Wharton-Scott House, is a 1903 Georgian Revival mansion on Fort Worth's Pennsylvania Avenue tied to the…
Thurber, Texas
Thurber was a company coal town of roughly 8,000 to 10,000 people that issued its own scrip and also made paving bricks, and it collapsed…
Corpus Christi, Texas
The USS Lexington, commissioned in 1943 and nicknamed the Blue Ghost, is a World War II aircraft carrier that has been a museum on Corpus…
San Antonio, Texas
Victoria's Black Swan Inn is a historic home near Salado Creek that operates as a residence and event venue. It has long been named in San…
Dallas, Texas
White Rock Lake, a reservoir created in 1912, is one of Dallas's best-loved parks, with trails around the water. Its best-known legend is…