Just in time for Halloween, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has unveiled a new tool for all things spooky along the Lone Star State’s thousands of miles of highway.

Now, if drivers want to learn all about the haunted places on their next road trip route, or what kinds of cryptids they may encounter when traveling after dark, all they have to do is check out TxDOT’s Statewide Planning Map.

TxDOT is calling the new tool the “Phantom Layer.” It’s the latest addition to the interactive online map that the state transportation agency typically uses to showcase ongoing and upcoming highway construction projects, where drivers can find public rest stops or electrical vehicle charging stations, and even the best spots to find Texas’ famous wildflowers in the spring. But now, the Phantom Layer gives Texans a way to discover all the weird, spooky, and spine-tingling spots across the state.

“The map’s new ‘Phantom Layer’ features haunted hotels, mysterious cryptid sightings, urban legends, eerie cemeteries, UFO sightings and other stories that might give you shivers as you drive around our beautiful state,” TxDOT officials said this week in a news release announcing the new tool.

The Phantom Layer was created in honor of the Statewide Planning Map’s 20th anniversary and was put together after gathering input from other TxDOT staffers and taking a deep dive into the most peculiar of Texas’ history.

“It was a fun and fascinating research project!” said Elaine Wendt, the GIS analyst with the Roadway Inventory Branch of TxDOT’s data management team who plotted each location on the Phantom Layer.

The Phantom Layer contains dozens of destinations of interest, all demarcated by otherworldly symbols depending on the kind of mysteries that can be found. For example, haunted buildings are marked with castles bathed in a ghostly blue glow. Places with known cryptid sightings are marked with red symbols of Frankenstein’s monster, and family-friendly fright spots, like fall corn mazes, are marked by jolly looking orange jack-o-lanterns. Clicking on the symbols will bring up windows with detailed location information, hours of operation (if applicable), and a brief summary of the frightful focal point.

In the Rio Grande Valley, the historic Port Isabel Lighthouse is marked with a green-eyed black cat arching its back and hissing. Further up the coast, the historic USS Lexington, which now sits docked as a living history museum along the Corpus Christi Bay waterfront, is marked by a gravestone symbol.

Several of San Antonio’s most haunted places are on the map, too, including the Sheraton Gunter Hotel, the Crockett Hotel and the Alamo downtown. Out past Schertz, a red Frankenstein’s monster indicates where urban legends say that La Llorona has been sighted off of Interstate 10. But one of San Antonio’s most well-known urban legend sites, the Ghost Tracks on the city’s Southside, aren’t on the map — yet.

TxDOT said the Phantom Layer map is still a work in progress. And additional spooky spots are expected to be added as additional results from a TxDOT employee survey trickle in. The agency said it’s also hoping to “expand opportunities for public involvement for the 2027 version of the map.”