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Things to Do in Houston

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Space Center Houston Admission Ticket
323
Attractions & Museums
from $24.95 per adult
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Houston Museum of Natural Science General Admission
171
Attractions & Museums
from $13.75 per adult
NASA's Space Center plus Houston's Official City Tour
200
Bus Tours
from $84.95 per adult
Houston CityPASS
30
Aquariums
from $64.00 per adult
Half-Day Private Tour of Space Center Houston
6
Walking Tours
from $229.00 per adult (price varies by group size)
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Private Cart Tour of Galveston
8
Bus Tours
from $111.80 per adult
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Houston Memorial Indoor Skydiving with 2 Flights & Personalized Certificate
12
from $92.00 per adult
Small-Group Sightseeing Tour of Houston
9
Bus Tours
from $60.00 per adult
Houston Sightseeing Tour and Galveston Day Trip
21
Bus Tours
from $102.81 per adult
Black SUV Car from Houston to Austin, TX, IAH Airport, Houston to Austin, TX
from $749.00 per group (up to 6)

Self-guided Tours & Rentals

Top Attractions in Houston

1. The Houston Museum of Natural Science

Speciality Museums • Science Museums

The Museum District

Admission tickets from $10.70

In this one exhibit hall (of the 50 or so exhibition halls) a person can see, touch, hear and fully learn the world's…

2. Minute Maid Park

Arenas & Stadiums

Downtown

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Dedicated on March 2, 1911, and formerly a hub of rail transportation, the building now serves as a cornerstone for…

3. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Art Museums

The Museum District

The curators explain: they’re three-dimensional representations of the comparative populations of great American cities…

4. Children's Museum Houston

Children's Museums

The Museum District

Admission tickets from $45.00

Inside the museum and covering across several exhibits, the interactive spy game lets kids act like Secret Agents to…

5. Houston Zoo

Zoos

Medical Center

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Situated on about 55 acres in Hermann Park, close to downtown, the Houston Zoo is presently home to more than 6,000…

6. Space Center Houston

Speciality Museums

Admission tickets from $24.95

This massive building contains many mock-ups of actual space craft, including ISS modules.

7. The Galleria

Ballets • Points of Interest & Landmarks

Great Uptown

With Neiman-Marcus being the original anchor store, the Galleria has grown into Gallerias I, II, & III, serving many…

8. Cockrell Butterfly Center

Science Museums • Nature & Wildlife Areas

The Museum District

Built specifically as a natural habitat, it serves as the home of dozens of live butterflies, one more beautiful than…

9. Toyota Center

Arenas & Stadiums

Downtown

Designed to host the Houston Rockets, it serves as a venue to a wide range of events.

10. Rodeo Houston or Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Arenas & Stadiums

For 3 weeks every March, the entire town remembers its agrarian and cowboy roots, With 25,000 volunteers and counting…

11. Water Wall

Points of Interest & Landmarks • Waterfalls

Great Uptown

The largest man made "water fountain" in America with millions of gallons of water flowing over the towering Roman…

12. NRG Stadium

Arenas & Stadiums

Located next to the old Astrodome, NRG is a gigantic stadium with crisp exterior glass clearly visible from the highway.

13. Discovery Green

Parks • Playgrounds

Downtown

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It's an actively managed oasis of green and encounter on the eastern side of Downtown, with activities funded by…

14. National Museum of Funeral History

Speciality Museums • History Museums

This is a multimedia presentation of funerary objects, narratives of funerals of the famous, caskets, amazing hearses…

15. Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

Historic Sites • Gardens

Afton Oaks/ River Oaks

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The house is situated on 14 acres of organically maintained gardens in Houston's historic River Oaks neighborhood."

16. The Menil Collection

Art Museums

Neartown/ Montrose

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It is an oustanding private collection of art and architecture donated to Houston by Mr. and Mrs. Menil.

17. The Music Box Theater

Theaters

This minimalist facility is the home of an enormously talented ensemble of three women and two men.

18. Buffalo Bayou Park

Parks

The city of Houston has a cirque 1926 underground city reservoir and instead of proclaiming it obsolete the Buffalo…

19. Houston Museum District

Speciality Museums

The Museum District

The exibition culminated with a reproduction King Tuts burial chambers and of the mummy of King Tut in a glass case.

20. Saint Arnold Brewing Company

Breweries

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The brewery is housed in a large, historic facility that has plenty of room for the brewery to grow and showcase its…

21. Lone Star Flight Museum

Military Museums • Speciality Museums

Admission tickets from $45.00

Located inside the former Elliginton AFB, the museum not only has numerous beautifully restored aircraft, it has an…

22. Rice University Campus

Educational sites

That stadium looks to be the tallest structure on the 104-year-old school 's 295 acres!

23. Houston Arboretum & Nature Center

Nature & Wildlife Areas • Hiking Trails

Washington Ave./ Memorial Park

Admission tickets from $45.00

It's 155 acres protected from the asphalt jungle and dedicated to educating the public about the natural plant and…

24. Houston Graffiti Building

Points of Interest & Landmarks

Open now

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Free public access to quality urban street art/graffiti painted on a block of building on Chartres Street in Houston!

25. Smither Park

Parks

The "memory wall" consists of over 50 sections each done (or to be done, the work will take several years) done by…

26. Memorial City Mall

Shopping Malls

It is a mall where light is every where, illuminated spaces and lots of options to see.

27. Holocaust Museum Houston

History Museums

The Museum District

The museum is dedicated to educating people about the Holocaust, remembering six million Jews (men, women, children…

28. Glenwood Cemetery

Cemeteries

Washington Ave./ Memorial Park

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It has served 6 generations, and continues to be an active, operating cemetery.

29. Karbach Brewing

Breweries

Locals brewery and restaurant located in north east Houston .

30. Downtown Aquarium

Aquariums

Over all the Aquarium complex has over 200 varieties of aquatic life and 500,000 gallons of tanks situated on over 6…

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Outdoor Activities

Food, Wine & Nightlife

Day Trips

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