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Museum District

Set within a scenic part of central Houston is the city's Museum District, featuring 16 varied and interesting institutions and numerous restaurants set among some lovely green spaces like Hermann Park. One of the highlights in the area is the Byzantine Fresco Chapel on...  see full details


The Orange Show

For a touch of the bizarre call at the Orange Show to see how obsession can become art. A former postman spent 26 years of his life assembling a collection of weird and wonderful objects and meshing them together into a labyrinth of...  see full details



Sam Houston Historical Park

The Sam Houston Historical Park near the city’s visitor centre in Bagby Street provides visitors with a large as life look at Houston history. The 19-acre park features seven of the city’s oldest buildings that have been restored and relocated here. The oldest building...  see full details



Bayou Bend

The magnificent muted pink mansion in the marshy elbow of Buffalo Bayou in Houston's River Oaks area was the home of Miss Ima Hogg, a woman much loved in the community until her death in 1975, at the age of 93. Miss Hogg...  see full details



National Museum of Funeral History

At Barren Springs near Houston’s International Airport is the unusual private museum run by a major funeral company in the United States, dedicated to funeral memorabilia. Customs, rituals and traditions associated with burial from ancient Egypt to the present day are covered in this...  see full details


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