Texas attractions

Space Center Houston lets visitors learn the history of NASA and manned space flight. It is located in Houston, Texas, close to Nassau Bay.

Downtown Aquarium Houston is a six-acre wonderworld, encompassing a 500,000-gallon aquatic experience, a tiger exhibit, and a bunch of family-friendly rides. With more than 300 species, including sharks, turtles, snakes, and stingrays, you're guaranteed a wild time downtown!

The Houston Museum of Natural Science can be found in the Houston Museum District at the northern end of Hermann Park. Inside, you can find collections of dinosaur bones, minerals, fossils, and other special exhibits! During your visit make sure to stop and see the Foucault Pendulum – its 60-foot-long cable helps to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. Inside you'll also find the Cockrell Sundial, one of the largest sundials in the world.

Austin Aquarium is an oceanic wonder in the heart of Austin, Texas, that also features some fascinating land mammals. Make a splash with the whole family and experience thousands of species and interactive exhibits! Austin Aquarium offers once-in-a-lifetime experiences for kids and adults alike, including everything from feeding sharks to meeting stingrays, birds, and even kangaroos. The Austin and San Antonio Aquariums are the only facilities in the United States where you can also interact with lemurs!

The Menil Collection in Neartown Houston, Texas is a museum showcasing the private collection of John and Dominique de Menil. Inside you'll find some 17,000 paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, rare books, and drawings. The collection features an impressive list of surrealist and contemporary masterpieces with works by some of the 20th century's biggest names like Picasso, René Magritte, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. There's also pieces from antiquity and the medieval era, the tribal cultures of Africa, Oceania, and the American Pacific Northwest.

Experience everything the deep blue sea has to offer at San Antonio Aquarium! Since 2014, the aquarium has been a hub for marine education in Leon Valley. On any given visit to this family-friendly Texas attraction you'll see sharks and tropical fish, stroke rays, and meet inquisitive lemurs. You might even bump into a mermaid or two. Wonder at floating jellyfish and go eye-to-eye with reptiles. There's an interactive aviary, touch pools, and so much more to experience during this wild San Antonio adventure.

SeaWorld San Antonio is the world's largest marine theme park, so expect plus-size thrills and spills aplenty. It features world-famous orca shows, gravity-defying rollercoasters and hands-on animal encounters.

SEA LIFE San Antonio is home to San Antonio’s only Underwater Ocean Tunnel! Come face to fin with sharks, our rescued sea turtle, touch a sticky anemone, and explore over 20 breathtaking exhibits. No flippers required! Immerse yourself in a tropical sea where sharks and rays swim overhead in 155,000 gallons of wow! See the Aquarium’s largest sharks and fish swim directly overhead for the ultimate shark selfie. Reach in and touch a chocolate chip sea star, sea anemones, hermit crabs and more. Dive into a shipwreck to spot some of the most unique creatures at SEA LIFE San Antonio. Be mesmerized at a technicolor reef full of live corals, count the schooling bannerfish, and wave hello to beautiful coral fish. Key exhibits and features: 50 ft Underwater Ocean Tunnel Interactive Touchpool Stingray Bay Shipwreck Seahorse Mangrove Exhibit And more!

Austin Zoo is a little rescue zoo located in a residential area in Austin, Texas, that allows you to get close up to a wide range of animals and even feed some with food available to purchase in the gift shop. Austin Zoo is smaller than some other zoos, but it makes for a great escape from the busy city centre, especially if the kids like giant turtles, monkeys, wolves, foxes, exotic birds, and lions!