One dance hall, two bars, three stages, and a state-of-the-art kitchen define Goode Co. Armadillo Palace at 5015 Kirby Drive in Houston's Rice Village area. Part of the Goode Company restaurant family founded by Jim Goode, the Armadillo Palace is a full-service restaurant and honky-tonk hybrid that combines Texas barbecue traditions, live music, and a dance floor built for two-stepping under hand-painted murals and vintage neon. The kitchen goes well beyond standard bar food: mesquite-smoked re.....

Within the celebrated Houston Museum of Natural Science in Hermann Park, the Cockrell Butterfly Center is a soaring, three-storey glass-walled rainforest conservatory inhabited by some two thousand free-flying butterflies of around sixty species drawn from rainforests around the world. The centre, which opened in 1994 thanks to a generous gift from the local Cockrell family, is one of the largest tropical butterfly habitats in the United States and a much-loved fixture for visitors to the museum.....

In the Upper Kirby neighbourhood, the Color Factory is an immersive walk-through experience that turns colour itself into the subject of an entire museum. The Houston outpost, which opened in autumn 2022, joined sister venues in New York and other American cities operated by an independent design company that began as a pop-up project before evolving into the polished, ticketed art-experience model that has become a fixture of the immersive-attraction movement. The visit unfolds along a self-pa.....

Halloween night 1950 was opening night for the University of Houston's grand hall, the east wing of an Art Deco administration building designed to give the young university a front door worthy of a city. Cullen Performance Hall at 4800 Calhoun Road occupies the eastern half of the Ezekiel W. Cullen Building, designed by native Houston architect Alfred C. Finn - the man behind the San Jacinto Monument - with long classical wings and regularly spaced pilasters. The building was announced in March.....

Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler played their college ball in this building when it was Hofheinz Pavilion, home of the Phi Slama Jama teams that changed basketball. The arena at 3875 Holman Street on the University of Houston campus opened in 1969 and served the Cougars for half a century before a 60-million-dollar transformation - anchored by a 20-million-dollar gift from Houston restaurateur and Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta - rebuilt it from the concourses in. Reopened in December 2018 as t.....

Stretching across some four hundred and forty-five acres between the Texas Medical Center and the Museum District just south of downtown Houston, Hermann Park is one of the most heavily visited parks in Texas and a cherished centrepiece of city life. The park was created in 1914 on a tract of land donated to the city by the developer and philanthropist George H. Hermann, whose vision was to create a major public park in a city whose rapid growth had left few large-scale green spaces. The park's.....

In the Museum District of Houston, the Holocaust Museum Houston is the fourth-largest Holocaust museum in the United States and one of the most significant centres devoted to remembrance, education and human rights in the South. Founded in 1996 by a coalition of local Holocaust survivors and community leaders, the museum operates in a thoughtfully redesigned and expanded campus that reopened in 2019 following a 33.7 million dollar transformation that more than doubled the museum's exhibition spa.....

In the Museum District just south of downtown Houston, the Children's Museum Houston is widely regarded as one of the finest children's museums in the United States. The museum was founded in April 1980 by a small group of dedicated parents and educators and has grown into a 90,000-square-foot facility that welcomes more than a million visitors each year, making it among the most heavily attended children's museums in the country. The museum's twelve permanent and rotating galleries are designe.....

Tucked into the western edge of Hermann Park in central Houston, the Houston Zoo is one of the most popular zoological gardens in the United States and one of the most visited in Texas, welcoming more than two and a half million guests each year. The zoo traces its origins to 1922, when an American bison and a single albino raccoon arrived at the park, with the first dedicated zoo facilities following on the same site over the next several years. The non-profit Houston Zoo, Inc. has operated the.....

In a striking former arena complex just south-west of downtown Houston, Lakewood Church is one of the largest single-congregation churches in the United States and the home base of the celebrated televangelist Joel Osteen. The non-denominational evangelical Christian congregation traces its founding to May 1959, when Joel's father John Osteen began a small church in a converted feed store on the city's east side, growing the congregation steadily over the following four decades before his death .....