Places willdamron1995 Wants to Go

Cantonese comfort food is on the menu at this Asiatown mainstay.

This South-by-South-Asian restaurant serves up Indian-spiced Southern fried chicken and a Desi-style pastrami.

Houston’s oldest continuously-operating Tex-Mex restaurant has been a community hub since 1941.

At Houston’s longest-running restaurant, find a classic oyster stew beloved by a former U.S. President.

This small park features a monumental fountain wall, providing a great photo opportunity in the middle of Houston.

Originally brought to Texas by Czech settlers, these sweet and savory pastries are an essential local breakfast staple.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

A 400-year-old live oak tree with a fictitiously morbid past.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

A former post office turned venue, food hall, and retail center.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

Look no further than this local institution for the best East Texas–style barbecue.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Some of the best Chinese-Vietnamese fusion can be found at outposts of this homegrown empire.

Before the Vatican, there was Dolton: This is the childhood home of the first American pope.

This delicious Bosnian barbecue restaurant celebrates the diverse cuisine of Slovenia.