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In downtown San Antonio sits one of the coolest saloons in all of Texas: the Buckhorn Saloon. Not only does it serve food and beverages but it also has multiple museums that you can visit while you escape the Texas heat: The Buckhorn Museum, The Texas Ranger Museum, The American Sideshow, & The Carnival of Curiosities. At the museums you’ll see plenty of taxidermy animals (some of them quite deserving of the Crap Taxidermy book) from elephants to bears to lions & tigers and everything in between. There’s even a room for sea creatures! There’s also a wild west town to explore at the Texas Ranger Museum. At the Carnival of Curiosities though, you’ll get to see actual real shrunken human heads… I was very taken aback by how large and fun the museums were. I wasn’t sure what to expect but there is plenty to do for both children and adults and it truly is worth a visit if you’re in the area.

But one of the coolest facts about this here Saloon is that it is the very place that Theodore Roosevelt formed the Rough Riders back in 1898. Or that’s the story. They were actually the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry but before long they were known as Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, named after the then popular Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World.