Texas Visits
Houston, TX
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Houston Museum of Natural Science One Hermann Circle Drive 713-639-4629
One of the more impressive crystal and gemstone collections we’ve seen. This museum also has a wonderful exhibit on oil exploration (of course, given its location). When we were there a great docent with oil drilling experience was giving an absolutely-riveting talk-and-walk through the exhibit.
October 2009
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Houston Downtown Aquarium 410 Bagby St. Houston, TX 77002 713-223-3474 http://www.aquariumrestaurants.com/downtownaquariumhouston/flash_content/index.html
It is the only aquarium we found that has white tigers. The restaurant keeps up the aquarium theme, with enormous tanks to watch while dining. Eat there.
October 2009
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Space Center Houston 1601 NASA Parkway (formerly NASA Rd. 1) Houston, TX 77058 281-244-2100
Not as much launch hardware as Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but here you can view mission control. They’ve got quite a collection of Apollo-era hardware. With the cancellation of the Constellation, one wonders what will become of this historically, and technologically important location.
October 2009
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