Buckhorn Hall of Horns T he Buckhorn Hall of Horns in San Antonio trots out thousands of dead animals and dead animal parts for your enjoyment. Don't miss the 4,000-antler chandelier and the chair made for Teddy Roosevelt out of 62 pair of buffalo horns. This massive assemblage of Texas-style stuff also includes a dead baby giraffe, a bottle cap collection, and the world's largest shovel. Visit the Halls of Horns, Fins, and Feathers, as well as the Hall of Texas History with its bloody wax diorama of a Comanche scalping a settler. Take a tour of the brewery, too.
All signs are bilingual.
Since the Lone Star Brewery was shut down in the mid-1990s, most of the Hall of Horns collection has moved to a new location which opened in 1999 in downtown San Antonio. The Hall of History features 14 dioramas, there's a bar, and a higher admission fee. If your taste in horns is state-specific, you need go no further than the Heritage Museum in Big Spring, which boasts the largest collection of Texas Longhorns anywhere. The horns from the longest Texas longhorn ever are here as well, a 10.5 foot spread. A historical marker about the Bible-inspired airship that beat out the Wright Brothers is at the original Pittsburg Foundry site, Fulton Street, Pittsburg,Texas.