Things to do in Houston?

Great Mexican, Asian and BBQ

Tour NASA

Uptown Houston

Galleria

Williams Tower - Uptown 64 floors, can get killer views of the Houston area if into that kinda thing.

Houston Zoo

Galveston

Go have some beers & finger foods at the Flying Saucer

The Bassmaster Classic will be going on at Minute Maid Park

If a beer guy, brewery hop. Eureka Heights, Saint Arnold, and Brash should be good. Bars for drinks like Axelrad, haymerchant, petrol station, and moon tower are great. Eat at Ninfa's on Navigation for the OG TexMex.

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Eat at Ninfa's on Navigation for the OG TexMex.

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a must

Is that the same ninfa's that was in BR?

::::::: FOOD :::::::

B&B Butchers for steaks (my review here on TD)

Riel for food that is simply kick arse

Bistecca for Italian Seafood and Steak

For Vietnamese, go to Hyunh right behind the Dynamo soccer stadium. Order #5 for your appetizer and either #57 or #70 for your entree....thank me later.

...there are a million places to eat but here are ones I ate at recently. OffshoreAngler has posted a shitload of legit eats but there's no way you can hit them all in 3 days.




::::::: SIGHTS :::::::

Aside from the awesome museums and the Housotn Zoo, here are some things that many people living in Houston don't even know about....

1. You can make the bayou burp (Downtown) -- As if the bayou wasn't dirty enough, you can legitimately make it burp. It’s called the Big Bubble. All you need to do is press the big red button hidden inside one of the pillars on the Preston St Bridge.









2. A crypt from the 1800's can still be seen under the Franklin St Bridge (Downtown) -- The Buffalo Bayou was once full of unexploded artillery from Confederate days. In 1866, the Donnellan brothers found one of the unexploded bombs and accidentally blew it up while handling it. Their crypt was built right into the south bank of Buffalo Bayou, and while their remains were removed in 1901, the Donnellan Crypt’s red brick entrance can still be seen under the bridge to this day.





3. Howard Hughes' gravesite





4. The National Museum of Funeral History is a thing... and we have it -- We aren’t sure why, but our fair city hosts the largest collection of “funeral service artifacts” in the ENTIRE country. Just in case you ever wanted to look at a bunch of 1830s hearses and stuff.







5. There’s an 87,500sqft underground cistern below the lawn on Sabine St -- Built as the city’s first underground drinking reservoir in 1927, this 87,500sqft, 25ft tall cistern was rediscovered just four years ago. The totally-creepy-but-pretty-dope cavern is only reachable via tiny hatches that open to 14ft ladders





6. There's a house made out of beer cans -- John Milkovisch didn’t want to mow his lawn. Solution: Pour concrete and then decorate with rocks, marbles and other found objects. Milkovisch began covering his home with flattened beer cans. This monument to recycling is open noon-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Admission to the grounds is $5, but you can view the house from the street for free anytime. 222 Malone





7. You can go on a wildlife "safari" -- You can see emu, zebras, rhinos and more (upclose by feeding them) at Bayou Wildlife Zoo. They inhabit an 86-acre animal reserve located in Alvin near Dickinson. Bayou Wildlife Park has 40 species of animals and birds from all over the world, including a number of endangered species. It is open to the public year round.

Riel was fricking amazing! The gulf shrimp and hanger steak!!