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We recently asked you to describe your favorite place in Austin using just emojis. To make it a little more interesting, we put together this short quiz of different local spots in emoji form. Can you guess them all?
Disclaimer: Sometimes emojis won’t show up if your software isn’t up to date. You may need to update your computer to view these
- 🐞 🐦 🌊
- 🤘 💡
- 🇺🇸 🏛️
- 💦 🌳
- 🏨 👻
- ☀️ 🌻
- 🐞 🐦 🌸
- 🎨 🖼️
- 🗼 ⚙️ ⛓️
- 👁️❤️📸
ANSWER KEY
- Lady Bird Lake — The popular lake located in the middle of Austin is actually a reservoir, which is a dammed section of the Colorado River.
- UT Tower — Depending on the occasion, the UT Tower is lit for all Austinites to see.
- Texas Capitol — Our state’s capitol building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 + designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
- Waterloo Greenway — This 1.5-mile park system offers unique greenspace in Austin.
- Driskill Hotel — Some say this is the most haunted place in Texas.
- Mueller’s SunFlowers — These 15 SunFlowers generate energy used for lighting at night, and are made of solar cells, steel, and plant material.
- Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center — Founded by Lady Bird Johnson and Helen Hayes as the National Wildflower Research Center in 1982, this center features ~900 species of native plants.
- Blanton Museum — This museum was founded in 1963 and holds the largest public art collection in Central Texas, with ~21,000 objects.
- Cathedral of Junk — Created by local Vince Hanneman, this odd site in Vince’s backyard was first constructed in 1988.
- “I Love You So Much” mural — This work of art is one of the most popular murals in Austin, and we love it so much.
