Best Year-round Winter Wonderland

Pecan Square Emporium

One hundred degrees in the shade, and Christmas is still seven months away? Jump in the sleigh and head on down to the Pecan Square Emporium, where every day is Christmas Eve and there's always a bit of snow dusting the ground. It may be blazing summer outside, but inside the Emporium it's a dim, comforting 75 degrees - the perfect environment to get lost for hours amid hundreds of unique nutcrackers, handmade and collectible ornaments, scale-model Christmas-themed houses, and handcrafted Spanish nativities. Whether you're stocking up on gifts or just looking around, this offbeat gift shop is a perfect place to hear those sleigh bells jinglin' all year long.

Pecan Square Emporium
1122 W. Sixth, 512/477-4900