Very real. It burned up a few years ago and they rebuilt it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tex

Also the Alamo (as in "Remember The") still exists. It's now a museum in downtown San Antonio.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_Mission

Seeing the Texas maps without interstates was interesting too, they make up so much of our driving these days.

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/ Has tons and tons of those-find some near your location!

The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country.

Which is what Internet Archive has as their latest scrape too.

The previous scrape worked: https://web.archive.org/web/20250906155345/https://www.roads...

The location of the Big Potato is a secret of national import!

In related news please note that the Big Potato in Robertson Australia has been painted and is now the Big Babe in celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the making of Babe the movie.

https://robertson.nsw.au/bigpotato.html