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Free Houston Travel Information Featured on USATravelPal.com
USATravelPal.com, a comprehensive travel website in progress, provides comprehensive travel information on over 1500 exciting destinations throughout the United States, including seven in Houston, Texas. Houston, the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest in the United States, provides a wide variety of exciting tourist activities. Fun places to visit include Bayou Bend, the Menil Collection, the Montrose District, the Museum of Fine Arts, the San Jacinto Battleground, and Space Center Houston.
As a center of art and culture, Houston houses several superb art museum. The Museum of Fine Arts is a vast complex consisting of two museum buildings, two decorative arts center, two art schools, and a sculpture garden. The museum contains over 40,000 artworks from all six continents, spanning 6000 years. The museum also houses the impressive Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, created in 1986 by sculptor Isamo Naguchi.
History buffs will be enthralled by the San Jacinto Battleground, a state park devoted to the history of the decisive San Jacinto Battle of the Texas Revolution of 1836. The highlight of the park is a 570-foot tall monument topped with a 34-foot, 220-ton "Lone Star" symbol. The monument has an elevator which rides up to a 489-foot high observation deck, offering breathtaking views of the park and the city. The park also houses the San Jacinto Museum, which exhibits over 400 years of early Texas history.
Space travel enthusiasts should not pass up a visit to Space Center Houston, the official visitors' center of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, NASA's main control center for space missions. This is the only place in the world where visitors can touch a real moon rock. One can also participate in a simulated space shuttle landing. In addition, Space Center Houston houses several spaceships, including the Mercury 9 capsule, the Gemini V capsule, the Apollo 17 command module, and the Lunar Rover vehicle trainer. The museum also has an IMAX theater which shows two excellent films.
