Point #30- Marfa...World class art in the middle of nowhere

To obtain this point: One must visit Marfa and experience world class art in the middle of West Texas.

Marfa, which began as a railroad water stop, only has a population just over 2,000 people, but it has some very interesting and Texanacious experiences. The first is the Chianti Foundation, which is a world class contemporary art museum founded by the work of Donald Judd on the former location of a military base...how cool is that!

The second interesting part of Marfa is the mysterious Marfa lights (known as the 'ghost lights'). There have been anecdotal claims about these lights in that area since the 1800s. They are explained as floating spheres that have various movements in different directions. For all you scientists out there, various explanations have been given for the lights: mirage-like images from the differences in temperature, reflections off of the quartz in the area, or automobile lights from a local highway (lame!). I would like to think that they are ghosts or aliens...

Enjoy Texas and did you know that parts of the 1950s movie 'Giant' (Member of the 1998 edition of the American Film Institute's Top 100 Films of all time) was filmed near Marfa.