Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The Atomic Candy Store and an adjacent store in downtown Denton, Texas

The Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle, a Catholic shrine that draws thousands of pilgrims each week to San Juan, Texas, near McAllen

The Boxing Hall of Fame mural, saluting famous boxers from El Paso, on a wall of the De Soto Hotel, El Paso, Texas

The Brown County Courthouse in Brownwood, Texas

The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin

The Broken Spoke, a dance hall and self-proclaimed "honky-tonk," or bar that provides musical (usually country) entertainment, in Austin, Texas

The Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls in the Texas Hill Country offers a hard-to-resist "pie happy hour"

The Bocca Della Verita fortune-telling machine at the Ripley's Believe It Or Not attraction in Grand Prairie, Texas

The Border Theatre, Mission, Texas

The blacksmith shop of the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

The bronze-and-granite Bonfire Memorial, executed on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas, by Overland Partners, Ltd

The Brewery Spring springhouse in Silver Plume, Colorado. The little structure, which supplied a good part of town with spring water, took its name from a brewery across the street

The Buu Mon Buddhist Temple in Port Arthur, Texas

The Carnegie Public Library in Bryan, the oldest existing Carnegie Library in Texas. A Carnegie library is one built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie

The chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, is often mistaken for a Spanish mission, since it lies quite near two missions in nearby El Paso, Texas

The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, Texas

The Cave Without a Name. That's not a description; it's the actual name of these caverns near Boerne, Texas

The centerpiece statue in the plaza and sculpture garden of the Meadows Museum on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas

The Cavalry Building, which served as barracks at Fort Brown in Brownsville, Texas, until World War I

The Chihuahuan Desert Garden and campus buildings of the University of Texas at El Paso

The Chapel of Thanksgiving building in Thanks-giving Square in downtown Dallas, Texas

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

The Commodore Perry Estate home (but NOT that of THE Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie), in Austin, Texas

The consequences of a cold February day in Paris, in North Texas

The Comal County Courthouse in New Braunfels, Texas

The courthouse for Brewster County, the largest county in Texas (because it includes most of the land within the massive Big Bend National Park), was built in 1887

The Cupcake Queens bakery wagon (in an old Airstream house trailer) in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

The current Romanesque Revival-style Comal County Courthouse in New Braunfels, Texas

The courtyard entrance to Falkenstein Castle, built from scratch as a residence by Kim and Terry Young in the hills below Burnet in the Texas Hill Country

The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders entertain the crowd at a National Football League game at the Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

The Dallas Cowboys take the field prior to kickoff at the National Football League Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas

The Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, Texas. Architect W.C. Dodson designed this Second Empire-style building on land donated by an early settler

The Contrabando, a ghost town within Big Bend Ranch State Park, west of Lajitas, Texas, on Texas State Highway 170

The Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge, a harbor bridge Corpus Christi, Texas

The distinctive street sign of the Ponca Motel, reminiscent of the original Pontiac automobile hood emblem, in Abilene, Texas

The distinctive Beacon Lodge Motel in Snyder, the seat of Scurry County, Texas

The DeWitt County Courthouse in Cuero, Texas

The deteriorating remains of "Tex Randall," a very big Texan (47 feet tall and weighing seven tons) erected in the city of Canyon in the Texas panhandle by industrial-arts teacher Harry Wheeler in 1959

The Doak Walker statue on the campus of Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, where he is a legend

The distressed Paramount Theatre in Marshall, Texas

The Denton County Courthouse in Denton, Texas

The Eagle Pass, Texas, Public Library

The Eli Young Band, whose members are Texans, perform at Rodeo Austin, the city's annual stock show and rodeo. Austin, Texas

The Elisabet Ney Mansion, a museum located in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Austin, Texas

The Edna movie theater the town of the same name in Jackson County in southeastern Texas

The east entrance to the Texas Capitol extension, Austin, Texas

The Emporium western-wear store in Gonzales, Texas

The Dr Pepper Museum in Waco, Texas

The engines and first few cars of a long Burlington Northern-Santa Fe Railroad freight train approach a crossing west of Van Horn, Texas

The estate house of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens in the River Oaks neighborhood of Houston, Texas

The facade and marquee of the Border Theatre in downtown Mission, Texas, one of the last remaining theaters with Art Pueblo styling

The establishment in Austin, Texas, that promotes itself as "the tiniest bar in Texas," an assertion that could not be independently confirmed

The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars in 1731 in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was built to supply irrigation water to the lands near Mission San Francisco de la Espada, today part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Physical descript

The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars in 1731 in what is now San Antonio, Texas. It was built to supply irrigation water to the lands near Mission San Francisco de la Espada, today part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

The family cemetery at the George Ranch Historical Park, a 20,000- acre working ranch in Fort Bend County, Texas, featuring historic homes, costumed interpreters and livestock

The Farmers National Bank Building, now (as of 2014) housing a law firm, in downtown Stephenville in Erath County, Texas

The federal courthouse and post office in Texarkana. Like the city, this building is half in Texas (to the left in this photo) and half in Arkansas

The Falls on the Colorado (river) Museum in Marble Falls in the Texas Hill Country

The enormous, high-definition video screen stretching from one 20-yard line to the other and weighing 1.2 million pounds, at the Cowboys' home field AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, is so hard to miss that team employees say many fans watch the whole game on it, rather than by watching the live act

The flag of Texas, painted on the side of a bank building in Monahans, Texas