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Comfort is a highly preserved German-Texan Hill Country community where more than a century of limestone architecture, walkable High Street, freethinker history, local shops and Guadalupe River country create a relaxed heritage weekend.

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RV park or campground directory profile near Weslaco, Hidalgo County.

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Elizabeth Crockett, the second wife of Alamo defender Davy Crockett, is buried here beneath a prominent monument erected in her memory. A compact stop that connects the Crockett story to the families who continued building lives in Texas after the revolution.

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Baylor University's Armstrong Browning Library & Museum is a free public museum and research library devoted to Victorian poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, known for rare books, manuscripts, decorative arts and an extraordinary collection of literary-themed stained glass.

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Artpace is a free contemporary art center in downtown San Antonio built around an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, with rotating exhibitions of work created by Texas, national and international artists.

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The farm interprets the home and working world of Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas. Living-history demonstrations turn Republic-era agriculture, labor and domestic life into something visitors can see rather than only read about.

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A flagship Lower Rio Grande Valley birding park near Mission, protecting subtropical resaca and thornscrub habitat where tropical species reach the northern edge of their range.

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The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin combines European, Latin American, American and contemporary collections with major installations and a redesigned outdoor museum grounds just north of the Texas Capitol.

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Houston's vast 1926 former underground drinking-water reservoir, restored as an 87,500-square-foot public space for history tours, performances and immersive art installations.

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The Midland home preserves the West Texas years of a family that would produce presidents, governors, a vice president and two first and second ladies. The house gives presidential history a domestic West Texas setting and helps explain how Midland's postwar boom shaped the Bush family's early years.

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Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Karnack protects bottomland hardwood forest, wetlands and former Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant lands beside the Caddo Lake ecosystem, with trails, wildlife viewing and layered military-industrial history.

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An East Texas archaeological site preserving monumental earthen mounds built by ancestors of the Caddo people along an important regional trade corridor more than a thousand years ago.

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Amarillo's landmark roadside-art installation of ten vintage Cadillacs buried nose-first in a Panhandle field, created by Ant Farm in 1974 and transformed by decades of visitor-applied paint into an ever-changing symbol of Route 66 car culture.

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Canadian is a Hemphill County Panhandle town in the Canadian River Valley where an active cultural district, art and pioneer museums, a restored river wagon bridge, wildlife habitat, historic Main Street and fall-color country create an unusually deep arts-and-outdoors destination.

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The restored home and property interpret the life of José Antonio Navarro, a Tejano statesman, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and influential early Texas leader. Casa Navarro adds an indispensable Tejano perspective to a San Antonio history itinerary that can otherwise lean too heavily on military sites alone.

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An El Paso national memorial telling the story of a century-long U.S.–Mexico boundary dispute resolved peacefully in 1963, with museum exhibits, cultural programs and broad lawns beside the international border.

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A kid-scaled public aquarium in Dallas’s Fair Park built around eye-level exhibits, touch experiences and approachable marine-life learning for younger visitors.

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Clarksville is a Red River County Main Street town older than the Republic of Texas, centered on an 1885 courthouse, preserved downtown square, Old Jail Museum, historic creek walk, early churches, antiques and nearby lake-and-nature recreation in Northeast Texas.

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The Corpus Christi Bay waterfront at Cole Park, best understood as a major city park and bayfront promenade with shoreline access rather than a formal open-Gulf beach.

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Civil War veterans and their families gathered on this Navasota River site for large reunions from the late 19th century into the 20th century. The grounds are useful for examining how Texans remembered, commemorated and reshaped Civil War memory after Reconstruction.