Guided Tours in Houston

112 self-guided tours

Self-guided walking and driving tours in Houston, Texas. Tap any tour for the story and where it starts, then follow every stop with maps and audio in the Texas Roam app.

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The Museum District: Houston's Cultural Mile

A walk through the dense cluster of museums that anchors the city's arts life

Houston Rocks: A Hip-Hop & Soul Music Trail

Third Ward blues, soul, and the sound that made Houston rap

Houston Heights: Victorian Boulevard & Bungalows

A streetcar suburb of grand esplanades, gingerbread porches, and Craftsman cottages

Houston Mural Trail

A driving loop through the Bayou City's boldest walls

Lights, Camera, Houston: The Bayou City On Screen

A driving tour of the movies Hollywood shot in Space City

Montrose: Counterculture, Murals & Mansions

A drive through Houston's bohemian heart, from oil-baron mansions to street art

Screwed Up: Houston's Hip-Hop & Soul Map

From the Bronze Peacock to DJ Screw — the sound of a city

Allen's Landing & the Founding of Houston

Where two brothers ran an ad and built a city

Bellaire Chinatown Dumpling & Boba Crawl

A walkable bite through Houston's Asiatown plazas

Beyoncé's Houston: From Third Ward to the World

The public places behind a hometown icon

Buffalo Bayou: Founding Waterway to Modern Park

A drive along the slow green river that made Houston

Fifth Ward: Frenchtown & the Bloody Fifth

Creole Houston, zydeco, and the churches and record labels of a legendary ward

Haunted Downtown Houston

La Carafe, the old Rice Hotel & the spirits of Market Square

Hermann Park & the Houston Zoo Century

A stroll through the city's great gift of green and the zoo that grew inside it

Houston Live Music Trail

White Oak Music Hall, House of Blues and the city's iconic stages

Houston Taco Trail: Taquerias & Trucks

A drive across Houston's taco geography, from Navigation Boulevard to Long Point

Houston's Public Art & Sculpture Trail

A drive between the city's landmark outdoor artworks

Houston's Skyline: Esperson to the Glass Towers

A century of ambition read off the downtown skyline

Market Square & the Lost Victorian Downtown

The old trading heart of Houston and the cast-iron blocks that survived it

Rice University: Architecture & Academic Houston

A walk across the live-oak quads of Houston's landmark campus

The Houston Ship Channel & the Port That Built a City

Harrisburg, the Turning Basin, and the deepwater canal that made Houston a port

The Old Sixth Ward: Houston's Victorian Streetcar Suburb

The city's largest surviving cluster of Victorian cottages

Third Ward & Emancipation Park

The soul of Black Houston, from Juneteenth's oldest park to Dowling Street's music halls

Bayou Greenways: Bike the Bayous

Ride Houston's ribbon of trails along its slow green rivers

EaDo Breweries & Beer Gardens

A walk through East Downtown's brewery and beer-garden cluster

EaDo: East Downtown's Warehouse Reinvention

From rail yards and mattress factories to a soccer stadium and art walls

Freedmen's Town: Houston's Freedom Colony

The Fourth Ward neighborhood built by people who freed themselves

Glenwood & Olivewood: Houston's Historic Cemeteries

Two burial grounds, two very different Houston stories

Glenwood Cemetery: Houston's Hilltop of Memory

Aviators, governors, and movie stars on the bluffs above Buffalo Bayou

Heights 19th Street Boutiques & Antiques

A walk down the Heights' historic shopping street

Hillcroft: The Mahatma Gandhi District

Houston's Little India — Indo-Pak eats along Hillcroft

Houston Coffee Roasters Trail

A drive through the city's best small-batch roasters and cafés

Houston Heights Brewery Trail

Saint Arnold, Eight Row Flint and the craft-beer corners near the Heights

Houston Ice House Trail

Open-air beer, live music, and the coolest institution in Texas

Houston Marathon: Running the Bayou City

A driving tour of the Chevron Houston Marathon course

Houston Sports Cathedrals: Astrodome, NRG & Minute Maid

The Eighth Wonder of the World and the stadiums that followed it

Houston Zoo & Hermann Park Kids' Day

A family walk from the African Forest to the Kinder train

Houston's Little Saigon: Midtown Pho & Banh Mi

A walkable crawl through Midtown's Vietnamese roots

Houston's WWII Home Front: Shipyards & War Plants

How the Houston Ship Channel built ships and won a war

Kolache & Donut Trail

Czech pastries, Houston icons, and the great morning drive

Magnolia Park & the Mexican-American East End

The little city on the bayou that became a heart of Mexican-American Houston

Memorial Park, the Arboretum & the Eastern Glades

A walking loop through Houston's grandest green space

Midtown Bar Crawl

A walkable circuit of Houston's densest nightlife district

Minute Maid Game-Day Eats & Bars

A short pregame walk around the downtown ballpark district

Montrose Cocktail Crawl

A walkable night of craft cocktails along Westheimer

Montrose Vintage & Record Shops

A crate-digging walk through Houston's bohemian quarter

Project Row Houses & Third Ward Art

A short walk through the shotgun-house art project that reimagined a neighborhood

Rice Village: Shop, Eat & Stroll

A stroll through Houston's oldest shopping village

River Oaks & Bayou Bend: Houston's Grand Boulevard

The Hogg family's planned garden suburb and the mansions of Houston's wealthiest avenue

RodeoHouston: The World's Biggest Rodeo & Fairgrounds

A drive around NRG Park, home of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

Sam Houston Park & the Heritage Houses

Houston's oldest park and the pioneer homes it rescued

Sawyer Yards & the Washington Arts District Studios

A walk through the nation's largest working-artist campus

Second Ward / Segundo Barrio: Houston's Mexican Heart

The East End barrio and its founding institutions

Space Center Houston: A Family Day in Orbit

A kid-friendly loop through moon rocks, shuttles, and Mission Control

Texas Medical Center: The World's Largest Med City

How a cattle-country oil town built the biggest medical complex on Earth

The Heights: 19th Street Shops & Beer Trail

Vintage storefronts, folk-art galleries, and Heights icehouses along the old commercial strip

The Menil, Rothko Chapel & Montrose's Art Enclave

A quiet walk through the neighborhood the de Menils turned into a work of art

The New Houston Table: Chef-Driven Dining

The rooms that made Houston a great American food city

The Original Ninfa's & Tex-Mex Royalty

Where the fajita was born, and the Tex-Mex houses that followed

Theater District & the Cultural Heart

The nine-block stage where a boomtown grew a soul

Washington Avenue After Dark

A walkable run through Houston's late-night party corridor

Wes Anderson's Houston: Rushmore & the Hometown Auteur

The city that raised a director and starred in his breakout film

Woodland Heights & Norhill: Bungalow Streetcar Suburbs

Craftsman porches on Houston's first planned suburbs

"Houston, We Have a Problem": Apollo 13 & NASA on Film

The real Mission Control behind Ron Howard's space epic

Acres Homes: A Freedom Community on the Prairie

The largest unincorporated Black community in the South

Buffalo Bayou Paddle & the Waugh Bridge Bats at Dusk

A downtown paddle that ends with 250,000 bats over the bayou

Camp Logan & the Houston Riot of 1917

A WWI training camp, a summer of tension, and the events that changed Memorial Park forever

Eldorado Ballroom & Third Ward's Jazz & Blues

The Black music heart of Houston, from the Eldorado to Emancipation Park

Ellington Field: A Century of Military Aviation

From WWI flight training to astronaut jets, at one historic airfield

Energy Corridor & the Oil Majors

The suburban campuses where the oil capital of the world does business

Frenchy's & Houston Soul Food

Fried chicken, Creole roots, and the Third Ward table

Gulfton: Houston's Ellis Island

Swingersville to the densest neighborhood in the city — a suburb that became an immigrant gateway

Hellfighters: Red Adair & Houston's Oil-Fire Legend on Film

The Houston firefighter John Wayne played on screen

Houston Honky-Tonks & Country Dancehalls

A multi-city drive for two-stepping, live country and neon boots

Houston Pride & the Montrose Parade

A celebratory walk through the heart of LGBTQ Houston

Houston Pro Sports Fan Day

Astros, Texans, Rockets, and Dynamo — four teams, one driving loop

Houston Takes Flight: Hobby & the 1940 Air Terminal

From a cow pasture landing field to the city's first airline terminal

Houston's Asiatown: Bellaire Boulevard

The dumpling malls, temples, and immigrant striver blocks of Chinatown West

Houston's Folk-Art Trail: Orange Show, Smither Park & Beer Can House

A drive through the visionary, hand-built folk-art monuments of Houston

Houston's Haunted Tables

Brennan's, Treebeards & the old Spaghetti Warehouse

Jason's Lyric & Houston's Hood-Cinema Wards

The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards on film

Memorial Park & Camp Logan: Houston's WWI Chapter

The World War I training camp beneath the city's greatest park

Museum District for Kids

A hands-on morning of dinosaurs, butterflies, and giant body parts

Near Northside & the Mexican-American North

Rail-yard barrios and the Creole heart of Frenchtown

Olivewood: Houston's First Black Cemetery

A quiet walk through the resting place of Houston's post-emancipation Black founders

Richard Linklater & Boyhood's Houston

The Texas filmmaker's twelve-year masterpiece, on location

Riverside Terrace: From Jewish Enclave to Black Elite

Houston's 'Jewish River Oaks' and its Black golden age

Rooftop Bars of Downtown & Montrose

An evening drive for skyline views and sunset cocktails

Sharpstown: Mid-Century Dream & the Scandal That Shook Texas

Frank Sharp's suburb, the mall that started it all, and a stock fraud that toppled the Capitol

Space City: NASA & Johnson Space Center

Mission Control, the Saturn V, and the suburb that put a man on the Moon

Spring Branch: A German Farming Frontier

Where 1840s German settlers farmed the Buffalo Bayou prairie

Sunnyside: One of Houston's Oldest Black Neighborhoods

A 1912 freedom community south of the city

The Art Car Parade & Orange Show Culture

A driving tour of Houston's visionary folk-art scene

The Breakfast Klub & Houston Brunch

Katfish, waffles, and the city's best late-morning tables

The Galleria & Uptown Shopping

A half-day through Texas's grandest shopping district

The Pappas Dynasty: A Houston Restaurant Empire

From a 1966 coffee shop to more than 100 restaurants — a family food story

Uptown & the Galleria: Post Oak's Rise

How a developer's Italian-inspired mall turned open ranchland into a second downtown

Viet-Cajun Crawfish Crawl

Houston's own garlic-butter mudbug invention, along Bellaire

Bayou City Art Festival & Memorial Park

Open-air art and Houston's greatest green space

Brewster McCloud: Robert Altman Takes Flight in the Astrodome

The first film ever shot inside the Eighth Wonder of the World

Downtown Aquarium Houston

Sharks, a train ride, and a Ferris wheel on the edge of downtown

Houston's Original Greek Festival & Cultural Fairs

Greek food and dance, plus a taste of Houston's festival calendar

Independence Heights: Texas's First Black City

The prairie community north of Houston that governed itself before Houston swallowed it

Jefferson Davis Hospital: Houston's Most Haunted

A hospital built over a forgotten cemetery

Lone Star Flight Museum & the Warbirds of Ellington

Restored World War II aircraft that still take to the Texas sky

Numbers & Houston's New Wave / Goth Legacy

A Montrose night drive through the city's alternative underground

Sheldon Lake & the East Houston Wetlands

A wetland park, a hatchery reborn as marsh, and the tallest tower in any Texas state park

The Buffalo Bayou Cistern & Underground Houston

A short walk to the city's hidden subterranean cathedral

The Continental Club & Houston's Live Music History

A Midtown crawl through the venues that keep Houston playing after dark

The Health Museum & Hermann Park Fun

A hands-on museum and a green afternoon in the Museum District

The Houston Open & Memorial Park Golf

A driving tour of the muni course that hosts the PGA Tour

The Julia Ideson Building & the Phantom Violinist

Houston's beautiful old library and its resident ghost

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