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Reunion Tower is a 171-metre (561 ft) observation tower in the Reunion district of downtown Dallas, designed by Welton Becket & Associates and opened in 1978 together with the neighbouring Hyatt Regency hotel. Glass-walled lifts rise to the GeO-Deck, an indoor and outdoor viewing level at 470 feet, beneath the restaurant inside the illuminated geodesic sphere.

The Dallas Zoo, founded in 1888, is a 106-acre zoo in Marsalis Park, about 5 km south of downtown Dallas, run by the Dallas Zoological Society. It keeps more than 2,000 animals of over 400 species; in the Giants of the Savanna area elephants, giraffes, zebras and antelopes share one landscape, and the zoo has gorilla and chimpanzee habitats.

LEGOLAND Discovery Center Dallas/Fort Worth is an indoor LEGO play centre inside the Grapevine Mills mall in Grapevine, between Dallas and Fort Worth, opened in March 2011. It has the Kingdom Quest laser ride, the Merlin's Apprentice ride, a 4D cinema, a Miniland model of the Dallas area, a Build & Test racing zone and play areas for young children.

SEA LIFE Grapevine is an aquarium at the Grapevine Mills mall in Grapevine, near Dallas, opened in July 2011 opposite LEGOLAND Discovery Center. Its displays include an ocean tunnel, interactive rock pools, a stingray bay, a rainforest area and a sea turtle rescue centre, with sharks, rays, jellyfish and turtles among the animals.

Six Flags Over Texas is an amusement park in Arlington, opened on 5 August 1961 by developer Angus G. Wynne Jr. as the first park of the Six Flags chain. Its name refers to the six nations that have governed Texas. Themed areas hold roller coasters such as the Texas Giant and the Runaway Mine Train, and the Oil Derrick tower of 1969.

Hurricane Harbor Arlington is an outdoor water park on East Lamar Boulevard, across Interstate 30 from Six Flags Over Texas. It opened as Wet 'n Wild and took its present name after Six Flags bought it in the 1990s. The park has water slides, lazy rivers and shallow play areas for children, including Splash Island, a play structure with 17 slides.

Globe Life Field is the home ballpark of the Texas Rangers baseball team in Arlington, designed by HKS and opened in 2020 beside AT&T Stadium. A retractable roof covers the stands and an artificial-turf field, and the ballpark hosted the 2020 World Series and the 2024 All-Star Game. It stands just south of the team's former ballpark, now Choctaw Stadium.

AT&T Stadium is the home of the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, opened in 2009 to a design by HKS Architects. Two steel arches carry a retractable roof over about 80,000 seats, and the stadium also stages the Cotton Bowl Classic, concerts and matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Guided tours show the field, the locker rooms and the Cowboys' art collection.

Billy Bob's Texas is a country music nightclub in the Fort Worth Stockyards, opened in April 1981 in a large former livestock barn. Its roughly 100,000 square feet of floor space hold a concert stage where touring country artists play, dance floors, bars, the Honky Tonk Kitchen restaurant and an indoor arena that stages live bull riding.

The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district north of downtown Fort Worth, grown around a livestock market that traded cattle from 1866 under various owners. Exchange Avenue is lined with brick buildings from the early 1900s, western-wear shops, saloons and the Cowtown Coliseum rodeo arena, and a herd of longhorn cattle is driven along the street twice a day.

The Fort Worth Water Gardens is a city park at the south end of downtown Fort Worth, designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee and dedicated in 1974 as a gift of the Amon G. Carter Foundation. Concrete terraces frame three pools: the Quiet Pool, the Aerated Pool with its spray jets, and the Active Pool, where water runs 38 feet down stepped walls into a basin.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, founded in 1892, collects art made after the Second World War and has occupied a building by Tadao Ando in the city's Cultural District since 2002. Flat-roofed pavilions of concrete and glass stand at the edge of a large reflecting pond, and the permanent collection holds more than 3,000 works of international modern and contemporary art.

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth's Cultural District grew from the collection of Kay and Velma Kimbell and opened in 1972 in a building by Louis I. Kahn, whose vaulted galleries are lit by daylight from above. A second building by Renzo Piano opened in 2013. The collection spans antiquity to the 20th century, from European painting to Asian and African art.

The Fort Worth Botanic Garden at the edge of the city's Cultural District was established in 1934 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its grounds include a rose garden with stone pergolas, a Japanese garden with ponds and a rainforest conservatory, and it shares its site with the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened in 1961 in Fort Worth's Cultural District, in a building by Philip Johnson, and grew from the collection of publisher Amon G. Carter. It shows American painting, sculpture and works on paper from the 19th and 20th centuries, including Old West scenes by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, and a photography collection.

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, founded in 1975, honours women of the American West, from ranchers and rodeo riders to artists and writers. Its brick building in Fort Worth's Cultural District holds exhibitions, a research library and a collection of historic photographs, and new honorees are inducted into its hall of fame every year.

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opened in 1945 as a children's museum and moved in 2009 into a building by Legorreta + Legorreta in the city's Cultural District. It houses science and Texas history exhibits, dinosaur fossils, a gallery for young children, the Noble Planetarium and the Omni Theater, a cinema with a domed screen.

The San Jacinto Monument is a 567-foot (173 m) Art Deco column on the Houston Ship Channel near La Porte, east of Houston, built in 1936–1939 on the battlefield of San Jacinto, where the Texas Revolution was decided in 1836. A lone star crowns the top. The base holds the San Jacinto Museum of History, and a lift climbs to an observation floor.

Kemah Boardwalk is a waterfront amusement and dining complex on Galveston Bay in Kemah, near Houston, opened in 1998 and run by Landry's. Along the boardwalk are restaurants, shops, a hotel and a marina, and the rides include a carousel, a Ferris wheel and the Boardwalk Bullet wooden roller coaster.

Space Center Houston, in the Clear Lake area about 35 km southeast of downtown Houston, is the visitor centre of NASA's Johnson Space Center, opened in 1992 and run by a non-profit foundation. It shows more than 400 space artefacts, among them the Apollo 17 command module and a shuttle replica on the carrier aircraft NASA 905, and runs tram tours into the NASA site.