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Discovery Green

Discovery Green is a 12-acre public park in the heart of downtown Houston, Texas, opened in 2008 across from the George R. Brown Convention Center. It turned a stretch of city-centre land into lawns, gardens, a lake and …

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Downtown Aquarium

Downtown Aquarium is an aquarium, restaurant and entertainment complex at 410 Bagby Street in downtown Houston, Texas. Opened in 2003, it brings marine life and a white tiger exhibit into the middle of the business distr…

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Lauren's Garden

Lauren's Garden is a small memorial garden in Market Square Park in downtown Houston, Texas. It honours Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and remembers all the vic…

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The Alley Theatre

The Alley Theatre is Houston's long-running resident theater company, based at 615 Texas Avenue in the downtown Theater District. Its stark concrete building, opened in 1968, is one of the most distinctive pieces of arch…

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The George H. W. Bush Monument

The George H. W. Bush Monument is a bronze statue of the 41st president of the United States, standing at 400 Texas Avenue in downtown Houston. It honors a man who made Texas his home and went on to the White House, and …

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Houston Museum of Natural Science

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is one of the most visited museums in the United States, set at the edge of Hermann Park in Houston's Museum District. It brings together dinosaur skeletons, gems and minerals, a pla…

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The Health Museum

The Health Museum, formally the John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science, is a hands-on science museum about the human body and the history of medicine in Houston, Texas. It stands at the edge of the Museum Di…

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Children's Museum Houston

Children's Museum Houston is a hands-on learning museum at 1500 Binz St in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. It is built for children, with play-based exhibits on science, technology, engineering, arts and maths. It…

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is one of the largest art museums in the United States, set in the Museum District of Houston, Texas. Founded in 1900, it is the oldest art museum in Texas, and its campus of galle…

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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting art museum on Montrose Boulevard in Houston, Texas, dedicated to showing art of the present moment. Founded in 1948 and housed since 1972 in a distinctive steel-cl…

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