Texas borders New Mexico on the west, Oklahoma on the north, Louisiana and Arkansas on the east. To the southwest, across the Rio Grande, Texas borders the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas. To the southeast of Texas lies the Gulf of Mexico.
REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS
BIG BEND COUNTRY REGION
El Paso Museum of Art's artworks include American painting and sculpture, European painting and sculpture, Mexican viceroyal painting and 19th century Mexican folk retablos and many others.
The El Paso Zoo is an eighteen-acre home to more than 700 animals of 175 species in a variety of natural habitat exhibits including a Reptile House, American Biome, Americas Aviary, Paraje, Birds of Prey, Forest Atrium, Asian Grasslands, Asian Endangered Walk, and an Elephant Complex.
The Globe of the Great Southwest is a replica of the original Globe Theatre, the home of William Shakespeare's acting company in England.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
The Presidential Museum
Western Playland Amuseument Park
The Natural History Museum of El Paso
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
American Airpower Heritage Museum
PANHANDLE PLAINS REGION
The Grace Museum houses three museums in the historic Grace Hotel: The Art Museum, The History Museum and The Children's Museum.
Buddy Holly Center collects, preserves and interprets artifacts relevant to Lubbock's most famous native son, Buddy Holly, as well as to other performing artists and musicians of West Texas.
Carson County Square House Museum is just one of 21 buildings, galleries, outdoor diorama, and large outdoor artifacts that make up the Square House Museum complex.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Wonderland Park (Amusement Park)
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum
Don Harrington Discovery Center
Mackenzie Park/Joyland Amusement Park
Amarillo Museum of Art
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature
The American Quarter Horse Association
HILL COUNTRY REGION
The Dixie Dude Ranch is a working stock ranch. Explore the ranch on hiking trails, hunt for fossils and arrowheads or check out their century-old barn and Range War Cemetery.
Natural Bridge Caverns Learn a lot about identifying gems and minerals while filling your pockets with treasure, or take the Adventure Tour through the South Cavern -- a physically demanding and thrilling excursion into one of the world's premier caverns.
Clearsprings Aviaries & Zoological Gardens has collection of rare and endangered exotic birds.
Caverns of Sonora is a natural cave that is one of the most active caves in the world, with more then 90% of the cave still forming.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Austin Zoo
The National Museum of the Pacific War
Friedrich Wilderness Park
The Exotic Resort Zoo
Schlitterbahn waterpark
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
PRAIRIES AND LAKES REGION
National Scouting Museum is a tribute to the rich history of the Boy Scouts of America.
OLD CITY PARK Nestled among 13 beautifully wooded acres, the village includes Victorian-era homes.
SCIENCE PLACE is about helping kids of all ages understand why and how things work.
THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN features 66 superbly landscaped acres of towering trees, fragrant gardens, and lush lawns that beckon you out of the city's bustle into a serene and beautiful world.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Dallas Zoo
The Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park
Dallas Museum of Art
Frontiers of Flight Museum
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Dallas World Aquarium & zoological garden
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Dallas Museum of Natural History
Fort Worth Zoo
The African American Museum
Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
PINEY WOODS REGION
Stephen F. Austin Mast Arboretum Enjoy a wide diversity of plant life, along with a children's garden and an azalea garden.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Caldwell Zoo
Harrold's Model Train Museum
Heritage Plaza
Gregg County Historical Museum
Longview Museum of Fine Arts
Marshall Depot
The Hudnall Planetarium
SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS REGION
San Antonio Museum of Art is home to the region's finest Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities; Asian art; European and American paintings; decorative arts, and contemporary art.
THE ALAMO is a 4.2 acre complex where a small band of Texans held out for thirteen days against the centralist army of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
WITTE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND SCIENCE exhibits, major national traveling exhibits, family events, live gallery theater, and overnight camp-ins for children.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Natural Bridge Caverns
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
Friedrich Wilderness Park
Diamond W Longhorn Ranch
San Antonio Botanical Gardens
Six Flags Fiesta Texas
Hertzberg Circus Collection & Museum
San Antonio River Walk
SeaWorld Adventure Park
San Antonio Zoo
GULF COAST REGION
The Children's Museum of Houston is the highest-attended youth museum in the country for its size and is committed to the mission of learning by providing hands-on exhibitions in the areas of science and technology, history and culture, health and human development, and the arts.
THE REEF is a 20-acre spring-fed lake and water-based family park offering facilities for scuba diving, swimming, fishing, kayaking/canoeing, and picnicking.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Texas State Aquarium
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Adventure Bay Waterpark
MUSEUM OF PRINTING HISTORY's collection contains examples of ancient writing, pre-Gutenberg hand written rare books and manuscripts, antique printing equipment and tools, historically significant printed material such as bible leafs, government documents, early newspapers and periodicals and antique fine art prints.
HOUSTON SPACE CENTER provides an adventure into the past, present, and future of NASA's manned space flight program with interactive exhibits, IMAX films, and behind-the-scenes tram tours of JSC, home of America's astronauts.
NATIONAL PARKS
Amistad National Recreation Area is sometimes stark and desolate but it comes alive after a rainstorm.
Big Bend National Park is a place that merges natural environments, from desert to mountains.
Big Thicket National Preserve
Chamizal National Memorial commemorates the milestone treaty between Mexico and the US in 1963. Far
Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River provides protection and maintenance of the pristine character of the Rio Grande from the Coahuila/Chihuahua, Mexico.
Fort Davis National Historic Site helped open the area to settlement and protected travelers and merchants along the San Antonio-El Paso Road from 1854 to 1891.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park contains portions of the world's most extensive and significant Permian limestone fossil reef.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
San Antonio Missions National Historic Park
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park
Padre Island National Seashore
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site
REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS
BIG BEND COUNTRY REGION
El Paso Museum of Art's artworks include American painting and sculpture, European painting and sculpture, Mexican viceroyal painting and 19th century Mexican folk retablos and many others.
The El Paso Zoo is an eighteen-acre home to more than 700 animals of 175 species in a variety of natural habitat exhibits including a Reptile House, American Biome, Americas Aviary, Paraje, Birds of Prey, Forest Atrium, Asian Grasslands, Asian Endangered Walk, and an Elephant Complex.
The Globe of the Great Southwest is a replica of the original Globe Theatre, the home of William Shakespeare's acting company in England.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
The Presidential Museum
Western Playland Amuseument Park
The Natural History Museum of El Paso
Permian Basin Petroleum Museum
American Airpower Heritage Museum
PANHANDLE PLAINS REGION
The Grace Museum houses three museums in the historic Grace Hotel: The Art Museum, The History Museum and The Children's Museum.
Buddy Holly Center collects, preserves and interprets artifacts relevant to Lubbock's most famous native son, Buddy Holly, as well as to other performing artists and musicians of West Texas.
Carson County Square House Museum is just one of 21 buildings, galleries, outdoor diorama, and large outdoor artifacts that make up the Square House Museum complex.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Wonderland Park (Amusement Park)
Panhandle Plains Historical Museum
Don Harrington Discovery Center
Mackenzie Park/Joyland Amusement Park
Amarillo Museum of Art
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature
The American Quarter Horse Association
HILL COUNTRY REGION
The Dixie Dude Ranch is a working stock ranch. Explore the ranch on hiking trails, hunt for fossils and arrowheads or check out their century-old barn and Range War Cemetery.
Natural Bridge Caverns Learn a lot about identifying gems and minerals while filling your pockets with treasure, or take the Adventure Tour through the South Cavern -- a physically demanding and thrilling excursion into one of the world's premier caverns.
Clearsprings Aviaries & Zoological Gardens has collection of rare and endangered exotic birds.
Caverns of Sonora is a natural cave that is one of the most active caves in the world, with more then 90% of the cave still forming.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Austin Zoo
The National Museum of the Pacific War
Friedrich Wilderness Park
The Exotic Resort Zoo
Schlitterbahn waterpark
Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
PRAIRIES AND LAKES REGION
National Scouting Museum is a tribute to the rich history of the Boy Scouts of America.
OLD CITY PARK Nestled among 13 beautifully wooded acres, the village includes Victorian-era homes.
SCIENCE PLACE is about helping kids of all ages understand why and how things work.
THE DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL GARDEN features 66 superbly landscaped acres of towering trees, fragrant gardens, and lush lawns that beckon you out of the city's bustle into a serene and beautiful world.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Dallas Zoo
The Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park
Dallas Museum of Art
Frontiers of Flight Museum
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Dallas World Aquarium & zoological garden
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
Dallas Museum of Natural History
Fort Worth Zoo
The African American Museum
Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum
PINEY WOODS REGION
Stephen F. Austin Mast Arboretum Enjoy a wide diversity of plant life, along with a children's garden and an azalea garden.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Caldwell Zoo
Harrold's Model Train Museum
Heritage Plaza
Gregg County Historical Museum
Longview Museum of Fine Arts
Marshall Depot
The Hudnall Planetarium
SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS REGION
San Antonio Museum of Art is home to the region's finest Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities; Asian art; European and American paintings; decorative arts, and contemporary art.
THE ALAMO is a 4.2 acre complex where a small band of Texans held out for thirteen days against the centralist army of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
WITTE MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND SCIENCE exhibits, major national traveling exhibits, family events, live gallery theater, and overnight camp-ins for children.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Natural Bridge Caverns
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
Friedrich Wilderness Park
Diamond W Longhorn Ranch
San Antonio Botanical Gardens
Six Flags Fiesta Texas
Hertzberg Circus Collection & Museum
San Antonio River Walk
SeaWorld Adventure Park
San Antonio Zoo
GULF COAST REGION
The Children's Museum of Houston is the highest-attended youth museum in the country for its size and is committed to the mission of learning by providing hands-on exhibitions in the areas of science and technology, history and culture, health and human development, and the arts.
THE REEF is a 20-acre spring-fed lake and water-based family park offering facilities for scuba diving, swimming, fishing, kayaking/canoeing, and picnicking.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Texas State Aquarium
Houston Museum of Natural Science
Adventure Bay Waterpark
MUSEUM OF PRINTING HISTORY's collection contains examples of ancient writing, pre-Gutenberg hand written rare books and manuscripts, antique printing equipment and tools, historically significant printed material such as bible leafs, government documents, early newspapers and periodicals and antique fine art prints.
HOUSTON SPACE CENTER provides an adventure into the past, present, and future of NASA's manned space flight program with interactive exhibits, IMAX films, and behind-the-scenes tram tours of JSC, home of America's astronauts.
NATIONAL PARKS
Amistad National Recreation Area is sometimes stark and desolate but it comes alive after a rainstorm.
Big Bend National Park is a place that merges natural environments, from desert to mountains.
Big Thicket National Preserve
Chamizal National Memorial commemorates the milestone treaty between Mexico and the US in 1963. Far
Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River provides protection and maintenance of the pristine character of the Rio Grande from the Coahuila/Chihuahua, Mexico.
Fort Davis National Historic Site helped open the area to settlement and protected travelers and merchants along the San Antonio-El Paso Road from 1854 to 1891.
Guadalupe Mountains National Park contains portions of the world's most extensive and significant Permian limestone fossil reef.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
San Antonio Missions National Historic Park
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Park
Padre Island National Seashore
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site
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