The 7 Wonders of Texas

Cool Maps: 7 Wonders

Mount Bonnell

"Mount Bonnell, also known as Covert Park, is a prominent point alongside Lake Austin in Austin, Texas. It has been a popular picnicking and tourist spot since the mid-1800s (C.E.). The mount provides a vista for viewing the city of Austin, Lake Austin, and the surrounding hills. "

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

"JSC is home to Mission Control (MCC-H), the NASA control center that coordinates and monitors all human spaceflight for the United States. MCC-H directs all Space Shuttle missions and activities aboard the International Space Station."

Spindletop

"Spindletop is a salt dome oil field located just south of Beaumont, Texas in the United States. On January 10, 1901, the well "Lucas 1" came in at Spindletop, marking the birthdate of the modern petroleum industry. At 100,000 barrels of oil a day, the gusher tripled U.S. oil production overnight, ensuring the second industrial revolution would be fueled not by wood and coal but by oil and its byproducts. "

River Walk

"The San Antonio River Walk (also known as Paseo del Rio) is a network of walkways around the San Antonio River, linking several major attractions one story beneath downtown San Antonio, Texas."

The Alamo

"The Alamo (formally: San Antonio de Valero Mission) is the name (from the Spanish word alamo, meaning cottonwood trees) of former mission and fortress compound, now a museum, in San Antonio, Texas, United States. "

San Antonio Missions National Park

"San Antonio Missions National Historical Park preserves four of the five Spanish frontier missions in San Antonio, Texas. These outposts were established by Catholic religious orders to spread Christianity. These missions formed part of a colonization system that stretched across the Spanish Southwest in the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries. "

Enchanted Rock

"Enchanted Rock is an enormous pink granite pluton just west of the Hill Country of central Texas in the United States. ..The prominent granite dome is visible for many miles in the surrounding basin of the Llano Uplift. Its gentle dome gives the appearance of being the edge of a pebble of leviathan proportions extruding from the earth, in the same manner as the larger Ayers Rock (or Uluru) in Australia. The rock is actually part of segmented ridge, the surface expression of a large igneous batholith of middle Precambrian material that intruded into earlier metamorphic schists and gneiss."