Themes vary at the whim of the artist and the gallery owner. You might see a retrospective on baseball or a series of "shadow" photographs in which the images look like faint scraps of ghosts.
Cyrus McCormick, born in 1809, invented the first commercially successful reaper, a horse-drawn machine to harvest wheat in 1831 & played a huge role in settling the Midwest. He is buried here.
Takes visitors around Pioneer Square above ground and also to a hidden Seattle that now lies underground. About 25 square blocks of Pioneer Square have hollow spaces under the sidewalks.
Venerated as one of the oldest museums in Texas,it offers visitors a lovingly preserved glimpse into early Texas history and into the life of a creative and spirited woman who lived life passionately.
Founded by seven visionary women who were members of a 1970's environmental group called "Now or Never". This group was established to preserve a natural area and use it as an outdoor laboratory.
Features realistic life-size dinosaur replicas that show skin and color variations to give a better understanding as to how they looked when alive.The statues range in size from 6 to 40-feet long.
With more than 300 animals across more than 100 different species, Austin Zoo and Animal Sanctuary is a private, non-profit zoo rescuing animals and serving the Austin community.
The idea for Mystère started around 1990. It was originally planned for Caesars Palace with a theme based on Greek and Roman mythology. It premiered here at Treasure Island in 1993.
Set in a one million-gallon water capacity theater, no seat is more than 40 feet from the stage. Each cast member must become scuba-certified before performing. "Le Rêve" means "The Dream" in French.
The original plans envisioned this to be the world's tallest freestanding structure. But due to possible inference with the airport, the tower was reduced to the current height 1,149 ft.
When Shoeless Joe Jackson entered this courthouse to address charges that he and his White Sox teammates fixed the 1919 World Series, a little boy supposedly shouted out, "Say it ain't so, Joe."
Arthur Compton lived here until 1945. While working at UChicago, Compton discovered the "Compton Effect" proving that light has both a particle aspect and a wave aspect. He won the Nobel Prize in 1927
Geraldo Rivera believed Al Capone hid a fortune in these basement walls. As America watched, workers blasted through the concrete walls, & found some old bottles. Capone had the last laugh after all.
Al Capone kept his family here in the 1920s, & this was his earliest headquarters. He did at least 1 interview here, wearing a pink apron & cooking spaghetti for the Chicago Herald Examiner in 1927.
Completed in 1924 and once home to the long-gone Miami News; during the 1960s offices at the Miami Freedom Tower processed requests for political asylum during the first wave of Cuban immigration.
Redskins Pro Bowl safety Sean Taylor was recovering here from a knee injury during the 2007 season when an intruder broke in. Taylor was shot in the leg, & after massive blood loss, died the next day.
Joe Namath proclaimed "The Jets will win on Sunday, I guarantee you" at the Miami Touchdown Club, once located here, just days before they met the Baltimore Colts in 1969. Joe lead the Jets to victory
The museum complex celebrates the diverse history of the region. Nestled in 10 acres of beautiful green parkland in Houston, the society operates 9 historic structures that date from 1823 to 1925.
The facility features model ships, historical pieces, maps and prints, a lecture hall, and a marine library.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's 1,200-acre San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site consists of the Battleground, Monument and Battleship.
On the site of Buff Stadium, completed in 1928 for the Houston Buffs baseball team, this museum displays a collection of sports memorabilia including home plate, which rests on the spot it occupied.
A 10 story Rainforest Pyramid offers an incredible tropical environment & is home to the largest bat exhibit in the Southwest. The newest attraction, the Aquarium Pyramid, is the largest in the world.
The gallery is full of beautiful and unusual paintings dating from the 1500s to the early 1900s. A wide array of botanical creations is featured in this collection of natural history art.
St Arnold is credited with the great miracle of quenching his caretakers' thirst with only 1 cup of beer that never ran dry. Started in 1993 this company is the city's 1st microbrewery & named for him
The sisters who asked Maurice Sullivan to build the chapel in the 1920s asked him to create a building that would "be as good in 500 years as on the day of completion". He accomplished exactly that.
This museum is a tribute to the victims of the concentration camps during WWII. Through changing exhibits, films & lectures it seeks to inform future generations of the horrifying results of hatred.
This landmark is a cool & refreshing oasis that attracts visitors and locals in droves. Designed by local architects in 1985, the amazing wall of water drops thousands of gallons 64 feet every minute.
Astronaut Garrett Breedlove (actor Jack Nicholson) lives here next to his neighbor Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine) during the Oscar-winning 1983 drama, Terms of Endearment.
Wes Anderson set his tale of a precocious teen at his own alma mater for the 1998 dramedy Rushmore. Max Fischer isn't an academic talent, but shows his strengths as the head of every club at school.
