The Whistlestop guide
Places
Springs, murals, marker posts and roadside oddities — the small things worth knowing about that the encyclopedias skip, gathered where you would actually drive past them.
These are the ones we have written up ourselves. There are a great many more behind them: the app draws on the full record as you drive, and finds the ones you are near.
448 written up·5 collections
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Roadside Attractions·Travis County
Hi, How Are You Mural
A frog on a wall on Guadalupe Street that a city decided it could not do without.
Natural Features·Waller County
Crawfish Chimneys
Little mud towers on the prairie shoulder, built from below by something you will never see.
Historical Markers·Taylor County
In Vicinity of Coronado's Camp
A roadside post in Taylor County claiming one of the strangest walks in American history came through here.
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Historical Markers
144 places
Local Flavor
14 places
Local Stories
138 places
Natural Features
91 places
Roadside Attractions
61 places
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