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The places most worth your time in and around Houston, and where to find them.

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Johnson Space Center
Johnson Space Center
Photo: NASA · Public domain

Johnson Space Center

36.4 km from the centre

The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is NASA's center for human spaceflight in Houston, Texas (originally named the Manned Spacecraft Center), where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973. JSC consists of a complex of 100 buildings constructed on 1,620 acres (660 ha) in Clear Lake.

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Reliant Stadium
Reliant Stadium
Photo: User eschipul on Flickr · CC BY-SA 2.0

Reliant Stadium

9.1 km from the centre

Reliant Stadium, previously known as NRG Stadium, is a retractable roof stadium in Houston, Texas, U.S. It opened in 2002 at a cost of $352 million and has a seating capacity of 72,220. It was the first NFL facility to have a retractable roof. The stadium is the home of the National Football League's Houston Texans, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, the Texas Bowl, many of the United States men's national soccer team's matches, Mexico national football team friendlies where El Tri serves as the host, and other events.

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Toyota Center
Toyota Center
Photo: Ed Uthman from Houston, TX, USA · CC BY 2.0

Toyota Center

2.4 km from the centre

Toyota Center is an indoor arena located in Houston, Texas, United States. It is named after the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. The arena is home to the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and it was once the home of the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League (AHL), and the Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Photo: Judson Dunn from Houston, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

4.2 km from the centre

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 5,000 years of history with nearly 80,000 works from six continents. In 1917, the museum site was dedicated by the Houston Public School Art League (later the Houston Art League) with the intention of becoming a public art museum.

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Daikin Park
Daikin Park
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Daikin Park

2.7 km from the centre

Daikin Park (originally Enron Field and formerly Astros Field and Minute Maid Park) is a retractable roof stadium in Houston, Texas, United States. It opened in 2000 and is the home ballpark of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). The ballpark has a seating capacity of 41,168, which includes 5,197 club seats and 63 luxury suites, with a natural grass playing field.

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Space Shuttle Independence
Space Shuttle Independence
Photo: Alex Ruddick · CC BY-SA 4.0

Space Shuttle Independence

36.2 km from the centre

Space Shuttle Independence, formerly known as Explorer, is a full-scale, high-fidelity replica of the Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built by Guard-Lee in Apopka, Florida, installed at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in 1993, and moved to Space Center Houston in 2012. It was built using schematics, blueprints and archival documents provided by NASA and by shuttle contractors such as Rockwell International.

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Rothko Chapel
Rothko Chapel
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Rothko Chapel

3.1 km from the centre

The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, founded by John and Dominique de Menil. The interior serves not only as a chapel, but also serves as the display framework for a major work of modern art: on its walls are fourteen paintings by Mark Rothko in varying hues of black. The shape of the building—an octagon inscribed in a Greek cross—and the design of the chapel were largely influenced by the artist.

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Houston Zoo
Houston Zoo
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Houston Zoo

5.2 km from the centre

The Houston Zoo (also known historically as the Hermann Park Zoo and the Houston Zoological Gardens) is a 55-acre (22 ha) zoological park located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. The zoo opened in 1922 as a park attraction housing 40 animals. In 2026 it housed around 4300 animals, and as of 2024 the collections included representatives of 575 species.

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Houston Museum of Natural Science
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Photo: Wolfgang Manousek from Dormagen, Germany · CC BY 2.0

Houston Museum of Natural Science

4.6 km from the centre

The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science. The museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre (formerly known as the Wortham IMAX Theatre).

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Menil Collection
Menil Collection
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Menil Collection

3.2 km from the centre

The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers to the museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books it houses. The museum is said to rank with "the great private museums in the United States—the Frick in New York City, the Gardner in Boston, and the Phillips in Washington, D.C." The future couple met at a ball at Versailles in 1930. At that time, Jean Marie Joseph Menu de Ménil (who subsequently Americanized his name) was 26 year-old baron.

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Houston Museum District
Houston Museum District
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Houston Museum District

4.2 km from the centre

The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations dedicated to promoting art, science, history, and culture, located in Houston, Texas, United States. The Houston Museum District currently includes 21 museums that recorded a collective attendance of around 7 million visitors a year. All of the museums offer free times or days and 11 of the museums are free all the time.

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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
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Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

9.1 km from the centre

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is the largest livestock exhibition and rodeo in the world. It was originally created to promote livestock production and agriculture in Texas, providing a space for farmers and ranchers to showcase their work. Over time, the event has grown from a small regional exhibition into one of the largest cultural and economic events in the United States.

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Hermann Park
Hermann Park
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Hermann Park

4.7 km from the centre

Hermann Park is a 445-acre (180-hectare) urban park in Houston, Texas, situated at the southern end of the Museum District. The park is located to the immediate north end of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Texas Medical Center and Brays Bayou, east of Rice University, and slightly west of the Third Ward. Hermann Park is home to numerous cultural institutions including the Houston Zoo, Miller Outdoor Theatre, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Hermann Park Golf Course, which became one of the first desegregated public golf courses in the United States in 1954.

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The Galleria
The Galleria
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The Galleria

8.2 km from the centre

The Galleria (stylized theGalleria and also known as the Houston Galleria) is an upscale mixed-use urban development and shopping mall located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States. The development consists of a retail complex, the Galleria Office Towers complex, two Westin hotels, and a private health club. The office towers and hotels are separately owned and managed from the mall.

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Alley Theatre
Alley Theatre
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Alley Theatre

1.7 km from the centre

Alley Theatre is a Tony Award-winning theatre company in Houston, Texas. It is the oldest professional theatre company in Texas and the third oldest resident theatre in the United States. Alley Theatre productions have played on Broadway at Lincoln Center, toured more than 40 American cities, and played internationally in Berlin, Paris, and St.

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Reliant Park
Reliant Park
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Reliant Park

9.3 km from the centre

Reliant Park, formerly NRG Park and Astrodomain, is a complex in Houston, named after the energy company Reliant Energy. It is located on Kirby Drive at the South Loop West Freeway (I-610). This complex of buildings encompasses 350 acres (1.4 km2) of land and consists of four venues: Reliant Stadium, Reliant Center, Reliant Arena and Reliant Astrodome.

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