Houston, Texas
Grave of Howard Hughes
One of the 20th century’s most famous businessmen is buried in Houston’s most prestigious cemetery.
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Houston, Texas
One of the 20th century’s most famous businessmen is buried in Houston’s most prestigious cemetery.
El Paso, Texas
El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.
Cross Plains, Texas
An Americana dreamscape.
Galveston, Texas
One of the largest historical collections on Texas and the American West.
Kilgore, Texas
At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.
Dallas, Texas
JFK's assassin rented a room in the boarding house in the weeks leading up to the 1963 shooting.
Galveston, Texas
Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.
Quitaque, Texas
Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.
Galveston, Texas
The historic tall ship is one of just three of its kind still sailing open waters today.
Galveston, Texas
This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.
Hemphill, Texas
Located in the place where the Columbia space shuttle came down, a museum-memorial that is both touching and informative.
Weatherford, Texas
The longest floating boardwalk in the United States.
Houston, Texas
Look no further than this local institution for the best East Texas–style barbecue.
Port Arthur, Texas
Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.
Texas City, Texas
This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.
El Paso, Texas
The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.
Sulphur Springs, Texas
Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.
San Antonio, Texas
A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.
Midland, Texas
The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.
Panhandle, Texas
The only nuclear weapon assembly and disassembly plant in the U.S.
Austin, Texas
This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.
Round Rock, Texas
This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.
Waco, Texas
Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.
Sweetwater, Texas
A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.