The Chicken Ranch in the Dolly Parton movie "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" was a brothel in La Grange, Texas. La Grange is a small town between Houston and Austin, and for about 3 generations La Grange hosted the Chicken Ranch, and most of the legends about it depicted in "Best Little Whorehouse" are kinda true -- like, for instance, dads taking their sons on milestone birthdays to get their first lay, and the winning team of the annual University of Texas vs. Texas A&M football game getting a celebration trip after the game... all true.
ZZ Top has a classic song, "La Grange", that's about the Chicken Ranch.
The Chicken Ranch met its match with one of the world's most annoying TV reporters, Marvin Zindler. Marvin exposed the secrets of the Chicken Ranch - which everyone knew but never talked about - and forced the police to shut it down. Marvin went on to become a long-time reporter on Channel 13 news in Houston, where he was most famous for exposing restaurants around Houston that failed health inspections. He always broke the news on places with "slime in the ice machine!"