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Book lovers unite and enjoy the Texas Book Festival, where they connect authors and readers through experiences that celebrate the culture of literacy, ideas, and imagination. The annual festival weekend features a variety of author presentations and panels, book signings, cooking demonstrations, programs, and activities for kids of all ages, food trucks, and exhibiting vendors from across the state and country.

The Cathedral of Junk is in the backyard of the artist who created it as a living sculpture, meaning it is always in flux as its creator, owner, and curator, Vince Hanneman, also known as The Junk King continues adding to it. The building is like a Cathedral that has a hollow framework of improvised trusses and wires that are packed with lawn mower wheels, car bumpers, kitchen utensils, ladders, cables, bottles, circuit boards, bicycle parts, brick-a-brack, and a lot of stuff that is unidentifiable.

Join AO Tours Austin, dubbed the best-guided sightseeing bus tour, where you can choose from a variety of Austin sightseeing tours to discover all the city highlights from local experts. They offer the best Panoramic City Center Tour, where you’ll see the city from an all-new perspective, as well as the Austin + Hill Country Panoramic Tour, where you will discover local hangouts and historical neighborhoods.