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There's something new to see every day at one of the houston's hundreds of live entertainmentvenues. You've got to take time to see some basketball at the Toyota Center,or a great Houston baseball game at Minute Maid Park with the Houston Astros.

Houston's Museum of Natural Science is a place you simply have to see to believe.One of Houstons's top attractions, the museum houses fabulous dinosaurs, jewels,and ancient Egyptian treasures, and it remains one of the best things to do in Houstontoday. Exhibition halls are fitted with state-of-the-art devices and tools, suchas video, computerized interactive events, and more, designed to educate visitorson the formation and life-forms of the seven continents, and ancient traditionsand cultures of people far and wide. The Strake Hall of Malacology gives a rareglance into the living of invertebrates and includes a sizeable collection of shells,as well as live creatures. The world famous Foucault's Pendulum, an apparauts whichphysically demonstrates the rotation of the Earth relative to the fixed stars, isalso housed in the museum, and you should not miss this excellent Houston attraction.Some of the largest gem stones in the world can be viewed in Cullen Hall, amongthe amazing examples of humankind's obsession with extracting precious stones fromthe earth's crust. Houston's Museum of Natural Science is a world class attractionright here in the Lone Star State.

A mission to Houston cannot be complete without a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA'samazing Johnson Space Center. You can see the Historic Mission Control Center, fromwhich the most famous American visits to outer space were controlled, the SpaceVehicle Mockup Facility, or the current Mission Control Center. The Saturn V Complexat Rocket Park is also open to the public, and nobody can forget seeing these splendidvehicles and their accessory equipment. You may even get to watch astronauts trainingfor real upcoming missions into space!

If the Texas weather has you a little hot under the collar, then visit the AdventureBay Water Theme Park. There is no better way to cool down with the kids in the summer!Adventure Bay Water Theme Park's extensive network of waterslides, uphill "gravitydefying" water coaster, other rides, and cool Houston attractions will help youenjoy yourself for hours, giving kids a chance to cut loose while Mom and Dad canchill out too! You'll be guaranteed to be treasuring your Houston memories if youpay a visit to this dreamy place, and those memories will be vivid and colorful!.

Staying with the watery theme, the 500,000 gallon barrel of fun, the Houston DowntownAquarium, from the shark pool through which you can ride in a train, to the ferriswheel, to the excellent lookout tower from which you can survey the whole amazingunderwater world, is a place of wonder. It is a fantastic place to visit, with its90-foot diving bell ferris wheel, food courts, and its other great Houston attractions.The 7-acre complex contains 5 water-themed fun-packed sections, such as a Louisianaswamp, observation tower, a tropical river River, and even a shipwreck.

If you're traveling into Houston for the first time, check out this quick overview of tourism and transportationin the Energy Capital of the World.

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Houston is a multicultural city with a large and growing international community.The city is home to the nation's third largest concentration of consular officesrepresenting 86 nations. Houston is designated as a world-class city by the Globalizationand World Cities Study Group and Network. Houston received the official nicknameof "Space City" in 1967 because it is home to NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Other nicknames include "H-Town," "Screwston," "The Big Heart," "Bayou City," "ClutchCity," "Hustletown," and "Magnolia City."

Houston has an active visual and performing arts scene. The Theater District islocated downtown and is home to nine major performing arts organizations and sixperformance halls. It is the second largest concentration of theater seats in adowntown area in the United States. Houston is one of only five United States citieswith permanent, professional, resident companies in all major performing arts disciplines:opera (Houston Grand Opera), ballet (Houston Ballet), music (Houston Symphony Orchestra),and theater (The Alley Theatre). Houston is also home to many local folk artists,art groups and various smaller progressive arts organizations. Houston attractsmany touring Broadway acts, concerts, shows, and exhibitions for a variety of interests.Houston is home to the Bayou City Art Festival, which is considered to be one ofthe top five art festivals in the United States

The Museum District is home to many popular cultural institutions and exhibits,attracting more than 7 million visitors a year. Notable facilities located in thedistrict include The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Natural Science, theContemporary Arts Museum Houston, Holocaust Museum Houston, and the Houston Zoo.Located in the nearby Montrose area are The Menil Collection and Rothko Chapel.Many venues scattered across Houston regularly host local and touring rock, blues,country, hip hop and Tejano musical acts. Unfortunately, there has never been awidely renowned music scene in Houston. Artists seem to relocate to other partsof the United States once attaining some level of success. A notable exception tothe rule is Houston hip-hop, which celebrates the unique southern flavor and attitudeof its roots. This has given rise to a strong, independent hip-hop music scene,influencing and influenced by the larger Southern hip hop and gangsta rap communities.Many Houstonian hip-hop artists have attained commercial success, including BunB, Chamillionaire, Mike Jones, Lil' Flip, and Beyonce.

Houston's freeway system is made up of 575.5 miles of freeways and expressways ina 10-county metro area. Its highway system uses a hub-and-spoke freeway structureserviced by multiple loops. The innermost loop is Interstate 610, which encirclesdowntown, the medical center, and many core neighborhoods with around a 10-milediameter. Beltway 8 and its freeway core, the Sam Houston Tollway, form the middleloop at a diameter of roughly 25 miles. A proposed highway project, State Highway99 (The Grand Parkway), would form a third loop outside of Houston. Currently, thecompleted portion of State Highway 99 runs from just north of Interstate 10, westof Houston, to U.S. Highway 59 in Sugar Land, southwest of Houston, and was completedin 1994. Houston also lies along the route of the proposed Interstate 69 NAFTA superhighwaythat will link Canada, the U.S. industrial Midwest, Texas, and Mexico. Other spokefreeways either planned or under construction include the Fort Bend Parkway, HardyToll Road, Crosby Freeway, and the future Alvin Freeway.

The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, or METRO, provides publictransportation in the form of buses, light rail, and lift vans. METRO's variousforms of public transportation still do not connect many of the suburbs to the greatercity, causing Houstonians to rely on the automobile as a primary source of transportation.METRO began light rail service (METRORail) on January 1, 2004. The inaugural trackruns about 8 miles (13 km) from northern Downtown at UH-Downtown to the Texas MedicalCenter and Reliant Park. METRO is currently in the design phase of a 10-year expansionplan that will add five more lines to the existing system.

Amtrak, the national rail passenger system, provides service to Houston via theSunset Limited (Los Angeles-New Orleans), which stops at a train station on thenorth side of the downtown area. The station saw 10,855 boardings and alightingsin fiscal year 2006.

Houston is served by two commercial airports. The largest is George Bush IntercontinentalAirport (IAH), the ninth-busiest in the United States for total passengers, andseventeenth-busiest worldwide. Bush Intercontinental currently ranks third in theUnited States for non-stop domestic and international service with 182 destinations.In 2006, the United States Department of Transportation named George Bush IntercontinentalAirport the fastest-growing of the top ten airports in the United States. Houstonis the headquarters of Continental Airlines and Bush Intercontinental is ContinentalAirlines' largest hub. The airline offers more than 700 daily departures from Houston.In early 2007, Bush Intercontinental Airport was named a model "port of entry" forinternational travelers by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. The second-largestcommercial airport in Houston is William P. Hobby Airport (named Houston InternationalAirport until 1967). The airport operates primarily small to medium-haul flightsand is the only airport in Houston served by Southwest Airlines and JetBlue Airways.Houston's aviation history is showcased in the 1940 Air Terminal Museum locatedin the old terminal building on the west side of Hobby Airport. The third-largestairport is Ellington Field, a former U.S. Air Force base, used by military, commercial,government and general aviation sectors.