Houston and Galveston Features

Houston and Galveston Features

• Mega-Spirited Texas
  

  If you see motorcycles flying overhead while you're in Texas, forget the state fair or rodeo, you just might be in church. As surely as Texas... Read more

• Houston & Galveston Top 5
  

  World-class Art. Houston is home to eclectic institutions like the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, and world-famous Museum of Fine Arts... Read more

• Howard Hughes: From Houston to Hollywood
  

  Test Pilot. Moviemaker. Engineer. Philanthropist. Addict. Recluse.... Read more

• A Texas-Size Storm
  

  On October 8, 1900, Galveston was slammed by a Category 4 hurricane. Winds reached 120 mph, destroying most of the city's buildings, and storm... Read more

• Getting There & Around
  

  All major airlines fly into either Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport on the city's north side or the smaller Hobby Airport on the... Read more

• Tour Houston By METRORail
  

  Board METRORail at UH-Downtown (One Main Street), housed in the "M&M" Building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places... Read more

• Rodeo Time!
  

  For two solid weeks in March, Houston returns to its Wild West roots. It begins with the trail rides... suddenly, the highways and byways leading... Read more

• Kay Bailey Hutchison: From Pom-Poms to Politics
  

  To critics, she was all big hair and bigger ambition, but U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's friends—and they topped 4 million in her last... Read more

• Mission: Put a Man on the Moon
  

  "We meet at a college noted for knowledge, in a city noted for progress, in a state noted for strength, and we stand in need of all three, for... Read more

• Houston's Fair Play
  

  Fancy some feast food, a little swordplay, and maybe a nice, friendly joust? Then you might try traveling back five centuries at the Texas Renaissance... Read more