I go to big museums a lot when I'm on vacation. Watched the 2024 eclipse from Perot Museum of Science in Dallas.

We flew in and out of Houston, though, and planned a couple days on either side of the trip there.

Cool things about Houston:

• Museum of Natural Science, and its gift shop. I never saw so many things I'd want to buy in zoo/museum gift shop.
• The tunnel through the seal tank at the zoo. Actually the zoo as a whole was pretty damn sweet.
• Johnson Space Center.
• The mall is actually bumping, and it has an ice rink inside.
• The highways are actually fascinating, from a purely architectural point of view.

Shitty things about Houston:

• Literally everything else.

Seriously of all the stops on that trip (we did Houston-->Austin-->Dallas-->Houston...best flights were in/out of Houston and I really wanted to spend a couple nights in Austin), Houston is definitely #5. I only visited 3 cities. That's how shit it is.

But the museum was one of the most amazing I have ever been in. I bought a membership to it even though I was flying home two days later with no intention of ever returning to Texas, let alone Houston. (It's cheaper for a family of four who parked and want a planetarium show to become members, even if for just one visit)