Things to do in Houston, places to visit:
- Johnson Space Center/Space Center Houston: Houston's top attraction is the official visitor's center for NASA, where simulations allow you to experience what it's like to walk in space or land on the moon. Visitors can also tour the NASA control center.
- Minute Maid Park: (formerly The Ballpark at Union Station, Enron Field, and Astros Field) is a ballpark in Houston, Texas.
- Heritage Society Museum: is the city's only outdoor, interactive historic museum and park. Nestled in 10 acres of beautiful green parklan.
Houston Arboretum and Nature Center: a 155-acre nature sanctuary 4 miles west of downtown. Five miles of walking trails through forest, meadow and pond habitats.
- Byzantine Chapel Fresco Museum: a small chapel featuring Byzantine frescoes of religious images.
- National Museum of Funeral History: houses the largest collection of funereal artifacts in the U.S., traces the history of funeral services, displays historic hearses and provides memorabilia from funerals of the famous, such as Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy and Elvis Presley.
- Holocaust Museum Houston: this outstanding science museum has a spectacular collection of mineral specimens, a dinosaur skeleton, space-station models, a planetarium, IMAX theater and a six-story butterfly center in which these beautiful creatures land delicately on outstretched arms.
- Museum of Fine Arts: The first municipal art museum in Texas is most well-known for its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, and also includes Baroque and Renaissance art, African tribal art, a sculpture garden and a teaching wing, where the works of students and top Texas artists are displayed.
- La Carafe: wine bar located in the oldest building in Houston, Texas.
Orange Show Center for Visionary Art: A celebration of everyone's favorite citric fruit: art and memorabilia of and about the orange.
Memorial Park: Memorial Park is a sprawling park nestled within a wooded majestic metropolis. Enjoy miles of walking or jogging with friendly Houstonians. You will find this park to be very pleasant indeed...
- Saint Arnold Brewing Company: Saint Arnold's is Houston's local, microbrewery and Texas' oldest craft brewery. They have a wide variety of beers including Amber Ale, Brown Ale, Texas Wheat, Fancy Lawnmower, Elissa IPA etc.
- Children's Museum of Houston: Hands-on interactive exhibits in the areas of science and technology, history and culture, health and human development, and the arts.
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