Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 2010s

The namesake outsized attraction at the Peter Pan miniature-golf course in Austin, Texas

The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas

The name of the 1872 "House of the Seasons" in Jefferson, Texas, derives from the play of light through its cupola's stained-glass windows, which produce effects that suggest all four seasons

The Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion del Socorro, or Socorro Mission, was founded in 1682 by the Franciscan order to serve displaced American Indians (the Piro, Tano and Jemez) from New Mexico, who fled during the Pueblo Revolt. El Paso, Texas

The old Cowboy Motel in Amarillo, Texas, dates to the days when the old U.S. Highway 66 wound through town

The old, abandoned Webb County Courthouse in Laredo, Texas

The old Granada movie theater in downtown Alpine, Texas, was converted into a music and performance hall and a site for community events

The old Ponca Motel, whose sign is reminiscent of the original Pontiac automobile hood emblem, in Abilene, Texas

The old, four-story Brown County Jail (which is quite a bit larger than the nearby county courthouse) in Brownwood, Texas

The Old Jail, now (in 2014) a private residence in Corsicana, Texas

The once-elegant El Jardin Hotel in Brownsville, Texas, with its faded welcome sign "BIENVENIDOS AMIGOS DE MEXICO"

The old Texas General Land Office Building, now the Texas Capitol Visitor Center, in Austin, Texas

The old Paramount Theatre, left, and the adjacent, newer State Theater in downtown Austin, Texas

The Old West town audience-participation theme park, working cattle ranch, and frequent movie, TV-commercial, and country-music video set at Enchanted Springs Ranch outside the town of Boerne, west of San Antonio in the Texas Hill Country. The locale contains more than 40 movie facades or original b

The Otto Struve Telescope at McDonald Observatory, an astronomical observatory located near the unincorporated community of Fort Davis in Jeff Davis County, Texas

The Open-Air Rotunda at the Texas Capitol Extension, Austin, Texas

The original, greatly refurbished, Phillips 66 gasoline station in little McLean, a town along historic U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

The original, still utilized, "a 3-manual, 8-rank" Robert Morton organ at the Jefferson Theatre, Beaumont, Texas

The Palace Motel, an old motor court-style motel in Grand Prairie, Texas, along old Texas Route 180 that used to be the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas. It features distinctive large cut stones that one sees in many structures throughout the state

The Pavilion, a downtown San Antonio wedding, event, meeting, banquet and reception venue just outside HemisFair Park, San Antonio, Texas

The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas

The Parker Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a house museum consisting of saved rural cabins moved to a central site in Fort Worth, Texas

The Pease Bedroom on the second floor of the Texas Governor's Mansion in Austin, the capital of Texas

The Parker County Courthouse in Weatherford, Texas, west of Fort Worth

The Pickard Cabin at Log Cabin Village, a living-history museum complex in Fort Worth, Texas, owned and operated by the City of Fort Worth

The Plaza Theatre in Laredo, Texas

The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, Texas

The Pompeiian Villa in Port Arthur, Texas

The Prairie Chapel School, a three-room schoolhouse that served the mostly German-and Austrian-immigrant community in Crawford, Texas, for three decades in the early 20th Century

The Prayer Tower, perhaps the most recognizable landmark in Pittsburg, Texas, with four Paccard bells from France that chime every hour and a chapel that never closes

The Queen of Peace Shrine and Gardens in a largely Vietnamese neighborhood of Port Arthur, Texas

The public library in Valentine, a town in Jeff Davis County, Texas, which denotes approaching holidays (St. Patrick's Day here) with a decorative touch to its sentinel lions outside the front door

The Queen of Peace Shrine in Port Arthur, Texas. This Hoa-Binh (Area of Peace), features gardens and statue of Mary three times life size was built by parishioners of Queen of Vietnam Martyr's Catholic Church in gratitude for their escape from Asia and the city that welcomed them Physical descriptio

The remnants of Meme's Kleen Kitchen, a defunct hamburger joint in Del Rio, Texas

The public, nondenominational, spiral-shaped chapel in Thanks-Giving Square (technically triangular), designed by architect Philip Johnson in downtown Dallas, Texas

The ranch house on the "LBJ Ranch" near Stonewall, Texas, where President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, spent so much time that it was often called the "Texas White House." Parts of the ranch grounds are now national and Texas state parks

The Rabb Plantation Home, southeast of Brownsville, Texas, along the twisting Rio Grande River

The Republic of the Rio Grande Museum, Laredo, Texas

The pumps have long been dry at this little truck stop east of the town of Sabinol, Texas

The Radha Madhav Dham, the main U.S. center of Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat, a nonprofit spiritual organization located on more than 200 acres of land in Hays County, south of Austin, Texas

The re-created Nuestra Senora del Espiritu Santo De Zuniga Mission, near the famous, oft-captured Presidio La Bahia in Goliad, Texas

The reconstructed birth home of President Lyndon B. Johnson, now located on the LBJ Ranch near Stonewall, Texas. Johnson was born and spent the first five years of his life on this site, but the old cabin was demolished in the 1940s. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird, had this approximation of the bir

The Rains County Courthouse in northeast Texas

The Resaca de la Palma Battlefield, in Brownsville, Texas

The restored "civil jail" at the Fort Griffin townsite, near the U.S. Army's frontier post of Fort Griffin in Shackelford County, Texas

The restored masonic lodge hall at the Fort Griffin townsite, near the U.S. Army's frontier post of Fort Griffin in Shackelford County, Texas

The restored post bakery at U.S. Army's frontier post of Fort Griffin, now a National Park Historic Site in Shackelford County, Texas

The Rialto Building on State Line Avenue, Texarkana, Texas

The Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park, Texas

The Robert Bruno Steel House in in the Ransom Canyon neighborhood of Lubbock in the Texas panhandle

The Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. Mexico is to the left, a sliver of the United States to the right

The rocky surroundings of Hueco Tanks State Park & Historic Site in the low mountains above El Paso, Texas

The Saddle Club tapas bar and restaurant in Alpine, Texas

The San Lorenzo Monument, a replica of an Olmec colossal head of ancient Mesoamerica. Also known as El Rey, the monument is located on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin

The Sam Rayburn Library and Museum, in Bonham, in Fannin County, Texas

The Sam Houston Oak in Gonzales, Texas, where, in 1836, Sam Houston and several citizen-soldiers temporarily fleeing the superior Mexican forces after the fall of the Alamo in San Antonio, spent a miserable night

The San Jacinto Monument, a 567-foot-high column located near the Houston Ship Channel in unincorporated Harris County, Texas

The Scurry County Courthouse in Snyder in west-central Texas was built in 1911 but lost its central tower to a renovation in 1950

The Samuel Young House at the Heritage Farmstead Museum, a living-history site interpreting the Texas Blackland Prairie region in North Texas in Plano, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas

The Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site, Paris, Texas