Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

Wayne Feeds advertising mural, Dublin, Texas

Wax figures in Louis Tussaud's Palace of Wax, part of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not attraction in Grand Prairie, Texas

We're not quite sure how to describe this oversized outdoor chicken in eclectic South Austin, a neighborhood of Austin, Texas. It is true that, for reasons not fully known, large-chicken art is popular across Texas. But maybe not this large

Well in the courtyard of the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, Texas

Welcome sign in Italy, Texas. Gabriel J. Penn, postmaster in Waxahachie, 15 miles away, named the town in 1880 because, he said, its climate was much like that found in "sunny Italy"

Weathered metal structures in the mostly deserted town of Lobo, south of Van Horn on U.S. 90 in Culberson County, Texas

Western mural by Stylle Read on a building in the town of Hico in Hamilton County, Texas

Western artifacts on the exterior wall of a structure in Grand Saline in Van Zandt County, Texas

Western-themed print inside Lil' Red's Longhorn Saloon in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

Western-themed street figure outside the Star Cafe in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth, Texas

What's left of the old HiWay Cafe in Valentine, a town in Jeff Davis County, Texas

What's left of an old Dr. Pepper beverage advertising sign on the wall of a vintage gas station at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

What remains of the old Welcome Inn, outside Lamesa, the seat of Dawson County, Texas

What's left of an old bar in a weathered neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas

Whatever this structure in Valentine in Jeff Davis County in far-west Texas once was, someone thought enough of it to mark it "private property"

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Wild javelinas, or peccaries, scurry across a field in rural Presidio County, Texas, south of Marfa

Whoever owns this car hasn't driven it in awhile. Bogota, Texas

Wildflower field near Poteet in Atascosa County, Texas

Wild West saloon at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television-commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio

Willo steakhouse sign, California

Windmill and water tower at dusk in Abilene, Texas

Windmill in the Will Looney Legacy Park at the Museum of South Texas History in Edinburg, Texas

Windmill in dusty Terrell County in the "Trans-Pecos" region of southwest Texas

Windmill in rural Washington, County, Texas, near the town of Chappell Hill

Wind turbines in Shackelford County, Texas, northeast of Abilene

Windmill in Hamilton County, Texas

Windmill and a bare tree in rural Runnels County, Texas, south of Abilene

Windmill in rural Gray County in the Texas panhandle

Wind farm near Snyder in Scurry County in west-central Texas

Wine casks at Mendelbaum Cellars Winery in Gillespie County in the Texas Hill Country, between Fredericksburg and Johnson City

Winspear Opera House, Dallas, Texas

With the help of other local artists, muralist Stylle Read painted this stylized mural in downtown Alpine, Texas, to help mark the 20th anniversary of the city's "Artwalk"

Wreck as art outside the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, a center of funky art in Austin, Texas

Yara, Dorsey, and Dominick Morales, left to right, play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara, Daisy, and Dorsey Morales, foreground to rear, play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara (left), Daisy (center rear), and Dorsey Morales play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara (left), Daisy (rear), and Dorsey Morales, left to right, play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara (foreground), Daisy (rear), and Dorsey Morales play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara (left) and Daisy Morales take a break from their play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara, Daisy, Dorsey, and Dominick Morales, left to right, play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara (foreground), Daisy (behind her), Dorsey (right), and Dominick Morales play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara, Daisy, Dominck and Dorsey Morales, left to right, play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yara (foreground), Daisy (middle), and Dorsey Morales play on an inflatable water slide outside their home in Dallas, Texas

Yard behind a sharecropper's cabin on the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000- acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

Zander Morris, Roland Salazar, Margaret Miller, and Marilee Stripling, presenters at the Mexican encampment at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto in La Porte, Texas

The Molly Brown House Museum in Denver, Colorado

Gray Cottages," a style, not a color, of humble homes in Walsenburg, Colorado

George Washington's Bathtub" at the Berkeley Springs Resort in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia

Drugs" sign outside a pharmacy on the portion of the National Road that runs through Wheeling, West Virginia

Main Street Gas" in rural Pocahontas County, West Virginia, has all the accountrements of an old gasoline station. But the closest Main Street of any size is miles away

Mining," one of two sculpture groups ("Agriculture" is the other) at the Dennis Sullivan Gateway to Denver, Colorado's, City Park

The Franchise" statue by John D. Baker in the Johnson Lummis Hunkins Plaza outside the Wyoming House for Historic Women in downtown Laramie, Wyoming

The Scott Window," a stained-glass window at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia

They're off" at the annual Weiner Dog Races, part of the West Side Main Street Program and FestivAll Charleston on the grounds of a middle school in Charleston, West Virginia

7 year old Amani Iron Cloud, a participant from the Wind River (Wyoming) Reservation in dancing, drumming, and other demonstrations of Indian life at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city.

75th anniversary of the Laramie, Wyoming, Jubilee Days Carnival

7 year old Amani Iron Cloud, a participant from the Wind River (Wyoming) Reservation in dancing, drumming, and other demonstrations of Indian life at the Indian Village on the rodeo grounds at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in the Wyoming capital city

A bandshell and triple-arched, stone pedestrian bridge over Lake Clara in Mineral Palace Park, a public park created in 1800s to surround a Victorian-era stone mansion given to the city. Pueblo, Colorado

A bald eagle at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado