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Skip the crowded group tours while visiting Houston and opt for this Houston Scavenger Hunt Experience instead. You’ll still see popular landmarks such as Minute Maid Park, Discovery Green, and Houston City Hall, but you’ll move at your own pace as you solve clues with your group using a Smartphone app.

Experience seven of Houston’s major sites on this guided bus tour, with a finish at the Holocaust Museum. Take in the city's sights that included the downtown area, Market Square, City Hall, Midtown, and more. After your city tour, head to the Holocaust Museum to explore its exhibits. Make a few stops for photos depending on accessibility.

This is a great tour if you like history, art, hauntings, and culture. We will discuss notable people, what to look for in evaluating stained glass and inaccurate details in carvings, and burial practices.

Enjoy exploring Beaumont and finding the city’s secret spots and learn about it in a fun way with this app-led scavenger hunt. You’ll be walking around the city, so wear comfy shoes. It is around a 2-hour experience, but you can go at your own pace because your guide is the app. Take photos along the way, and either challenge yourself in your team, or take it all nice and easy.

Make the most of your Space Center Houston experience with General Admission and your NASA TipSheet Guidebook! Take the stress out of exploring one of the world's most incredible space museums with practical guidance designed to help you organize your day and discover more. Explore Independence Plaza, Rocket Park and the legendary Saturn V, International Space Station, Life on Mars, Artemis, and more. Your guidebook provides specific instructions for signing up for complimentary onsite tram tours, plus recommendations for live presentation/theater showtimes. Available in 20+ languages, our NASA guidebook is especially valuable for international visitors, helping you navigate your experience even though Space Center Houston's exhibits and presentations offered in English only. Don't worry about missing an attraction, overlooking presentations, or being unaware of what is available. Explore with confidence, stay organized, and make the most of your NASA adventure from start to finish.

Start your day with a guided tour from our a Cowboy themed center and discover with us Houston's landmarks and history at the Heritage Society's Museum and historic homes. Experience and explore with us the Historic District, Main Street, Buffalo Bayou, Theatre District, and City Hall. In addition to a tall Texan skyscraper tour of Downtown Houston aboard our double-decker bus, hop off at the Heritage Society, you will be an urban cowboy when you explore rodeo history and the Texas spirit through the Sam Houston park Collections History Exhibit and with a walking historic houses tour at The Heritage Society, Houston’s history museum complex. After this, continue to complete your tour to mid-town and back to the original departure point at the Visitors Center.

The ideal time of the year for comfort and flowers for such a tour is in the last half of February, March, April, and October. The environments are tranquil, relaxing, full of flowers and you will see ducks, koi fish, squirrels, and more and sit in one or more of the pagodas. These are good sites to take photos. Be prepared to sweat in May, June, July, August, and September and dress warmly from November through the first half of February.

Will bring 2 or 3 videos to watch during the tour. I will have maps and population tables of the past 150 years. I will bring 4 books to peruse about African-American Texans, African-American Houstonians, The Green Book, and lastly a booklet about Memorial Park, where the biggest race riot in Texas took place in 1917. I will also play hit songs by local African-Americans from the 1960s and 1970s. You will have lots of stimuli. This tour covers portions of the 3rd and 4th Wards and southeast Houston beyond the Wards. It includes a variety of disparate Black communities that are spread across Houston. We will drive over 25 miles within the city.

Step into Houston’s past on a family-friendly walking tour where history and hauntings meet. Join our guides as we explore downtown landmarks tied to real people, documented events, and long-standing local legends - no gimmicks, just stories rooted in truth. From historic parks built atop old cemeteries to theaters, hotels, and skyscrapers shaped by ambition, tragedy, and mystery, each stop reveals how Houston’s growth left echoes behind. Guests learn the city’s lesser-known history while hearing carefully presented ghost lore that respects both skeptics and believers. The tour blends architecture, civic milestones, and folklore into an engaging narrative suitable for all ages. Whether you’re a visitor wanting deeper context or a local curious about what lingers after dark, this tour offers a thoughtful, atmospheric way to experience Houston beyond the usual highlights, where the past still has a presence and every story has a foundation in fact.

Discover the Houston highlights on a private self-guided audio tour that lets you explore the city on your own terms. Explore attractions like the Houston Zoo, Space Center, Waterwall Park, and Museum of Natural Science at your own pace with audio commentary on your device. Choose your starting point, visit attractions in any order, and spend as long as you like at each location.

Secure your ticket in advance to the NASA Space Center and visit Rocket Park, Independence Plaza, and the astronaut training facility. After hotel pickup in a climate-controlled vehicle, see popular landmarks around Houston, stopping briefly for photos during a small-group guided sightseeing tour. With a map and instructions, enjoy the flexibility to explore the space center on your own time, without the stress of rushing.

A typical tour of San Jacinto State Park includes transportation, parking, the San Jacinto Monument, museum, movie, observation deck, driving by refineries, petro-chemical plants, and cargo containers docks, the historic Crown Hill Cemetery, the Capture Site of Santa Anna, the Sidney Sherman Bridge, Washburn Tunnel, and the Lynchburg Ferry. Lunch is at the Monument Inn Restaurant with a terrific view overlooking the Houston Ship Channel. It goes through Houston, Pasadena, Galena Park, La Porte, Lynchburg, and sometimes Deer Park. If you like, we will stop at the original site of Houston's founding and the port of Houston from 1836 to 1914, Allen's Landing.

The ideal time of the year for comfort and flowers for such a tour is in the last half of February, March, April, and October. The environments are tranquil, relaxing, full of flowers and you will see ducks, koi fish, squirrels, and more and sit in one or more of the pagodas. These are good sites to take photos. Be prepared to sweat in May, June, July, August, and September and dress warmly from November through the first half of February.

Your tour is the most inclusive of any downtown mural tours in Houston. If parties are interested, we can also include entering a 1924 building to see New Deal murals. I will also provide historical context to these murals.

The ideal time of the year for comfort and flowers for such a tour is in the last half of February, March, April, and October. The environments are tranquil, relaxing, full of flowers and you will see ducks, koi fish, squirrels, and more and sit in one or more of the pagodas. These are good sites to take photos. Be prepared to sweat in May, June, July, August, and September and dress warmly from November through the first half of February.

Get from your Houston area hotel to George Bush Intercontinental Airport with a private transfer far away from the maddening crowd. A driver meets you at your downtown Houston, Galleria, or Medical Center lodging and transports you to the airport in comfort, with ample time for your departure. This private service is available 24/7 for a stress-free experience.

Enjoy an exclusive, once-in-a-lifetime experience found only in Houston, where the story of space exploration comes alive through the eyes of a veteran astronaut. Begin with an elegant brunch catered by Wolfgang Puck Catering, followed by a captivating presentation and private Q&A session with your guest astronaut. Hear firsthand stories, gain rare insight into life in space, and connect with one of the pioneers of human exploration.As a special memento, each guest receives a personalized photograph from the astronaut—a keepsake of an extraordinary encounter. This unique experience also includes General Admission for the NASA Space Center allowing your group to explore the remarkable legacy of NASA and human spaceflight once breakfast is over! Finish your day with an amazing tour of the NASA Rocket Park —the very place where Apollo 11's famous Saturn V rocket lies for observation. Exclusive. Inspiring. Unforgettable. A truly unique Houston experience you won’t find anywhere else.

The ideal time of the year for comfort and flowers for such a tour is in the last half of February, March, April, and October. The environments are tranquil, relaxing, full of flowers and you will see ducks, koi fish, squirrels, and more and sit in one or more of the pagodas. These are good sites to take photos. Be prepared to sweat in May, June, July, August, and September and dress warmly from November through the first half of February.

Uncover the darker side of Texas on this private 2 hour Houston haunted tour, exploring the actual sites of notorious murders, killings, and untimely deaths spanning from the 1830s through 1982. Follow a knowledgeable local guide through downtown Houston and its immediate outskirts while examining an extensive binder of historical documents, archived records, and research materials that verify each chilling oral account. These engaging stops and walks reveal the grim events hidden behind modern city streets, offering curious travelers a grounded, fact-checked look into Houston's shadowy past without theatrical embellishments. You will also see a fake cemetery and "Mount Rush Hour" to humor you.

This tour is the most inclusive Holiday Lights Tours that is offered with multiple stops to see the greatest variety of holiday lights.

This is a great way to learn about the history of Houston and to get some exercise. We will enter buildings from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1970s, 1980s, and 2020s. We will walk over 5,000 steps. This is a moderate walk on level ground in air-conditioned and heated tunnels. These are the most clean and pristine public tunnels in all of the US. We will be stopping about every 5 minutes to look at and go into 7 to 11 buildings. These are safe and well-illuminated. In the summer of 2023, Accuweather and the local Channel 13/ABC affiliate interviewed me about these tunnel tours for activities to do on hot and humid days when you do not want to be outside.

Houston’s vast neighborhoods and cultural diversity can feel overwhelming to visitors. Take the mystery out of your visit by exploring with a local on a private walking tour. This personalized tour allows you to see the exterior of iconic landmarks, historic sites, and museums while learning about Houston’s history and vibrant culture. If you’d like to include a museum visit, your guide can tailor the itinerary to your preferences—just let us know in advance. Perfect for families, solo travelers, or couples, this tour offers insider insights, hidden gems, and a unique connection to Houston you won’t get on your own.

The Alamo has been immortalized in legend and movies and the San Antonio River Walk is a romantic and arguably exotic place to eat and relax. Here you have the opportunity to have 2 great cultural and historical experiences in 1 day.

Looking for the best things to do in Houston? Titanic: An Immersive Voyage brings the story of the legendary RMS Titanic to life through life-size recreations, historical artifacts, 3D projections, and video animations. Explore more than 100 artifacts and recreated areas, from elegant passenger spaces to scenes of the ship's final moments. Follow the story from the ship's construction and maiden voyage through the iceberg collision, sinking, and aftermath. VIP ticket holders can go even further with a virtual reality journey to the Titanic wreck site deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Choose your entry time and explore at your own pace over approximately 60 to 90 minutes. Whether you're a history lover or looking for an unforgettable indoor activity in Houston, this exhibition is an easy way to experience one of the world's most famous stories up close. Book your ticket now and step aboard.