Everyone loves butterflies—it’s a fact, and the best place to see them is at the Cockrell Butterfly Center in Houston. It’s an interactive viewing experience where you can get up close with some of the strangest and largest species on the planet. The center’s the breath-taking Rainforest Conservatory is basically a three-story butterfly paradise. Plus the whole conservatory is structured around an impressive 50-foot waterfall!
5555 Hermann Park Dr.
Houston, TX 77030
713.639.4629
Houston – Cockrell Butterfly Center
Houston – Cockrell Butterfly Center
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Beaumont – Stark Museum of Art
The Stark Museum of Art in Beaumont… Read more…
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Houston – Burke Baker Planetarium
Visit the very same dome theater that is used to train NASA Space Shuttle astronauts in identifying starfields at the Burke Baker Planetarium at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The planetarium’s computerized SkySkan DigitalSky starfield projector is the most advanced in the world, so it’s as close as you can get to the real thing. The planetarium is always playing a variety of shows that range from “Secrets of the Sun” and “Dawn of the Space Age” to a digital recreation of “Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.” Read more…
