How to spend a day in Taylor, Texas

In recent years, the city has embraced its small-town feel, managing to preserve the pretty brick facades of its century-old heyday.

Why it matters: Taylor is an easy day trip from Austin, and there's plenty to occupy you.

⌚Go antiquing at the Vintique Collective.

• The place has vintage vinyl and old lace dresses up top and attractive toy engines and classy drinking glasses down below.

🏫 Relive your high school years at Old Taylor High, whose green lockers, auditorium and bathrooms will thrust you right back to teenagehood.

• Classrooms have been repurposed as an apothecary, book store, pinball arcade, bar and hair salon.

☕ Enjoy a coffee at Good Strangers, the kind of independent coffee shop with locally roasted beans that Austinites love to frequent.

• And grab whatever's on tap — usually some yummy smoked meat — from their collab with the innovative restaurant Mixtape.

📚 Browse the new and used books at Curio Mrvosa.

• A hub for creatives, it hosts block-printing workshops and "writing the weird" get-togethers.