Texas

• Brazoria County is Home to More Birds than Anywhere Else in North America

• Only one city named "Earth" exists in the whole world...and it's right here in Texas.

• There is a German dialect that is only spoken in Texas.

• The slogan "Don't Mess With Texas," was actually created for an anti-litter campaign.

• The largest known bat colony in North America is located in Texas.


• Those planning to commit a crime in Texas are required by law to provide their victims with 24 hours written or verbal notice.

• You can be legally married by publicly introducing a person as your husband or wife 3 times.

• There is an old law in Texas that states you are unable to tuck your pants into one boot unless you own ten or more cattle.

• Mesquite - it is illegal for kids to have unusual haircuts.

• Clarendon - It is illegal to dust any public building with a feather duster.

• A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining a special five-dollar permit.

• A recently passed anticrime law requires criminals to give their victims 24 hours’ notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.It is illegal to milk another person's cow.

• Borger - It is against the law to throw confetti, rubber balls, feather dusters, whips or quirts (riding crop), and explosive firecrackers of any kind.

• According to the Texas Penal Code Section 48.02, it’s against the law to sell human organs.

• El Paso has a law on the books requiring spittoons in church, assembly halls, hotels, banks, stores, train depots, and saloons.


• Austin - Museum of the Weird - Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

• Wimberley - Jacob's Well - A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

• Houston - National Museum of Funeral History - Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

• Waxahachie - Munster Mansion - A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

• Ingram - Stonehenge II - A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.