San Antonio
North of downtown near Trinity University, this 343-acre park is a great place to spend a family day. As well as the San Antonio Zoo, you'll find the…
Must-see attractions in Texas
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth
In a stunning building across from the Kimbell Art Museum, this stimulating museum displays paintings by the likes of Picasso, Mark Rothko and Francis…
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Fort Worth
Texas oilman Amon Carter starting collecting the art of the American West in the 1930s. Since his death, his impressive array of paintings and sculpture…
Dallas
This innovative 5.2-acre park is an urban green space built over the recessed Woodall Rodgers Freeway. It has its own programming and, besides outdoor…
Dallas
The red neon Pegasus became a symbol of Dallas during the decades when it flew atop Magnolia Building, starting in 1934. After a couple of moves and a…
Courthouse on the Square Museum
Dallas & the Panhandle Plains
By day, pop into the Courthouse on the Square Museum inside the grandiose 1896 former courthouse for local lore and an amazing display of art created with…
Houston
These recently opened gardens have a spiral climbing hill that affords views of the construction cranes poking up through the skyline. It also has…
West Texas
Be sure to find out what’s happening at Ballroom Marfa, a nonprofit art space located in a former dance hall. The focus is on offbeat, interesting…
Austin
Well of course you're going to pull over and take a photo in front of this wall-sized postcard. It's awesome. The eye-catching mural adorns the southside…
Hill Country
If your tour pauses while descending the 126 steps that lead into this cave, don't lean back. You might bump a sleeping bat! But no worries, they're…
Fort Davis National Historic Site
West Texas
Established in 1854, this well-preserved, beautifully sited frontier fort was named for then–Secretary of War Jefferson Davis. Staffed exclusively by…
West Texas
For majestic sunrises and sunsets, this remote park rivals any we've seen – and we've seen plenty. This wonderful place is just 3 miles northwest of Fort…
San Antonio & Hill Country
About halfway between San Antonio and New Braunfels, this national landmark cave is one of the state’s largest underground formations. Its name comes from…
San Antonio & Hill Country
The highlight of any trip to Shiner, the self-proclaimed 'cleanest little city in Texas,' is a free tour of the Spoetzl Brewery, where America's best…
National Museum of the Pacific War
Hill Country
The only US museum devoted exclusively to the Pacific War, in which over 100,000 American military personnel lost their lives, spreads through three sites…
West Texas
At 486 sq miles, this massive park is more than 11 times bigger than Texas’ next largest state park (Franklin Mountains in El Paso). Taking up almost all…
Fort Concho National Historic Landmark
Panhandle Plains
One of the best preserved frontier forts in Texas, Fort Concho was built in 1867, by German craftsmen from Fredericksburg, to protect local settlers and…
East Texas
It's as impressive as it is sad: this never-used Saturn V rocket, a specimen of the most powerful rocket ever used by the US, which took astronauts to the…
Central Texas
Prehistoric creatures walk the earth once more at the Dinosaur Park, halfway between Austin Bergstrom Airport and Bastrop. Well, they don't exactly walk,…
El Paso
The largest urban park in the US, at over 24,000 acres, offers a quick escape from the city to the home of ringtail cats, coyotes and countless other…
West Texas
If you only stop at one Chihuahuan Desert exhibit in Big Bend country, make it this one, at the eastern entrance of Big Bend Ranch State Park, 1.4 miles…
Austin
This wonderful, eclectic downtown museum features works from Mexican and Mexican American artists in exhibitions that change every two months. Many are…
Panhandle Plains
This fine museum complex includes three distinct collections housed in the former Grace Hotel (1909), once the grandest in Abilene. It features…
Bureau of Engraving & Printing
Fort Worth
Fort Worth is one of two US locations where the nation prints its paper currency. This US Treasury facility 8 miles north of the Stockyards produces the…
Panhandle Plains
Step back to a time long before the invention of air conditioning made the plains safe for city slickers at Buffalo Gap Historic Village. This living…
East Texas
Several Sam Houston–related buildings are located in a 15-acre park on the campus of Sam Houston State University, just south of downtown. The museum…
Panhandle Plains
Play Wile E Coyote and go looking for road runners at 529-acre Abilene State Park, which is 4 miles southwest of Buffalo Gap. Attractions include hiking,…
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Austin
The fascinating Ransom Center is a major repository of historic manuscripts, photography, books, film, TV, music and more. Highlights include a complete…
Panhandle Plains
Junction proper has a few places where you can get organized for a rafting trip on the river. Or you can go hiking (18 miles of trails) and spot deer,…
Northeast Texas
Camp Ford was the largest prisoner of war (POW) camp run by the Confederacy west of the Mississippi. Opened in 1863, it held over 5000 Union prisoners;…
Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site
Northeast Texas
Remnants of Texas’ Native American past are few and far between. So the 1200-year-old ceremonial mounds at Caddoan Mounds State Historic Site, just 25…
Northeast Texas
This historic cemetery received its first customer in 1837 and was soon the preferred resting place for a variety of early Texas pioneers. Note how early…
Devil's Rope & Route 66 Museum
Panhandle Plains
Cross I-40 to the north side and the battered town of McClean. This surprisingly large museum has vast barbed wire displays (where hipsters look for new…
Panhandle Plains
If plowing sedately along the bland interstate leaves you ready for a little excitement, shake off your lethargy by careening through the double loops of…
Dallas & the Panhandle Plains
A pharmacist in a Waco drugstore/soda shop invented an aromatic cola in the 1880s, that went on to become Dr Pepper. Taste original sugarcane-formulated…
Hill Country
This 60-acre park may not be Kerrville's largest, but it's free and offers river access, shaded picnic tables, sports courts and barbecue pits. Also, as…
Panhandle Plains
The dry-as-dust, 382-acre Big Spring State Park perches on a low bluff 3 miles southwest of downtown. The park’s short, one-way loop drive gives sweeping…
Austin
This simple expression of devotion draws legions of photo-taking lovebirds. Spray-painted on the side of Jo's Coffee on South Congress, it now joins the…
Hill Country
Located 10 miles east of Fredericksburg, just off US 290, this is one of the state's most decorated wine producers. Its vineyard has 36 acres of vines and…
Gulf Coast & South Texas
The Stark Museum of Art has collections focused on artworks depicting native birds and wildlife (including works by John James Audubon), Native American…
