Frisco Sports Capital & Museum Mile

Frisco bills itself as "Sports City USA," and the nickname is earned. In barely two decades this former railroad stop reinvented itself into one of the densest clusters of professional sports venues anywhere in the country — pro football, soccer, baseball, and hockey all train, play, or are enshrined within a few miles of one another. The catch is that most of it grew up along the very rail corridor that gave Frisco its name, so a tour of the new Frisco doubles as a tour of the old one. This driving loop links the Dallas Cowboys' gleaming headquarters and the national shrine of American soccer with the museums clustered near the tracks — a videogame hall, a heritage museum, and the rescued 1903 depot — showing how a small Collin County town leaned all the way into play and put itself on the national map.