The pair will hold tours through their gallery of etcetera: memorabilia from World’s Fairs, a clipping of Elvis’ hair, a fork bent by telekinesis, and that’s only scratching the surface. The Museum of Natural & Artificial Ephemerata (MNAE) is part of Scott and Jen Webel’s home.
In addition to a two-headed sheep and a Fiji Mermaid, you’ll find a freak show upstairs where an employee will happily put a nail through their nose and point out that Johnny Depp stayed in the building while he was filming What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. But for something a little more eclectic, smack in the middle of the debauchery of Sixth St sits the Museum of the Weird. If indoor art is more your thing, Austin has its share of impressive art collections at the Blanton Museum of Art and The Contemporary Downtown.
Bats at the Congress Avenue Bridge | Kushal Bose/Shutterstock Chicken Shit Bingo can be a surprisingly popular event, so if you want to play and get a good look at the chosen hen, arrive early. For $2, you receive a number, and if the chicken lets loose on your square, you win a cash prize. Well, rousing isn’t exactly the right word for waiting patiently on a chicken to poop in a square to call bingo, but with the help of a couple of Shiners, you'll feel surprisingly invested in chicken waste.Įvery Sunday from 4 to 8, Austinites young and old gather in the small dive, hovering around a chicken pen filled with seeds and a numbered grid. This Austin institution is the only bar with a Honky Tonk Happy Hour that features a rousing game of Chicken Shit Bingo. The unassuming white facade of The Little Longhorn Saloon (sometimes called Ginny’s) might lead you to believe there's nothing inside worth writing home about. You name it, we’ve got it! Austin embraces all types, all things, all people. We welcome you to find YOUR place in Austin.Play a game of chicken shit bingo at The Little Longhorn Saloon We have a Cathedral of Junk that towers nearly 30 feet high and an outdoor graffiti gallery (currently being relocated) where you can leave your own tag. Alter your view of the world at James Turrell’s “Skyspaces” which frames the sky with changing colors and shadows. At Sparky Park you can explore an assemblage of old electric substation hardware mixed with other random items. We have the only nude beach in Texas.Īustin is home to Hippie Hollow, a clothing optional beach located on Lake Travis. No other city in the state has a designated place for nudity. Not only do we love our live music, we also enjoy chicken shit bingo, we celebrate Christmas all year long at Lala’s Little Nugget, and you can enjoy a gospel brunch or a drag show brunch depending on your mood. We have a thing for bats. Austin has the largest urban bat colony in North America. During the spring and summer millions of Mexican free-tailed bats emerge from under the Congress Avenue Bridge, and we gather in droves to watch them each night as they head out to feast on bugs. We’ve celebrated this fictional character from Winnie the Pooh since 1963, usually in the spring and often involving costumes, drum circles, drinking, and other mind-altering substances. The list of things that “keep Austin weird” continues to flourish here are five of the ways we keep it weird and keep it local in Austin. Austin has a reputation for being weird, zany, slightly off-kilter, and the big blue dot in the middle of a red state. The mantra “keep Austin weird” officially came about in the early 2000s as a means of pushing back on Austin’s tech boom and fast growth indeed, it became a rallying cry to prioritize the creativity and innovation that was the pulse of our city. But growth marches on, and so does our weirdness… Decades later Austin still attracts those who see the world a little differently.
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