Guided Tours in Houston
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
Live Music
Houston Rocks: A Hip-Hop & Soul Music Trail
Third Ward blues, soul, and the sound that made Houston rap
Architecture
Houston Heights: Victorian Boulevard & Bungalows
A streetcar suburb of grand esplanades, gingerbread porches, and Craftsman cottages
Architecture
Houston Mural Trail
A driving loop through the Bayou City's boldest walls
Film & TV
Lights, Camera, Houston: The Bayou City On Screen
A driving tour of the movies Hollywood shot in Space City
Architecture
Montrose: Counterculture, Murals & Mansions
A drive through Houston's bohemian heart, from oil-baron mansions to street art
Live Music
Screwed Up: Houston's Hip-Hop & Soul Map
From the Bronze Peacock to DJ Screw — the sound of a city
Pioneers & Settlement
Allen's Landing & the Founding of Houston
Where two brothers ran an ad and built a city
Food & Drink
Bellaire Chinatown Dumpling & Boba Crawl
A walkable bite through Houston's Asiatown plazas
Live Music
Beyoncé's Houston: From Third Ward to the World
The public places behind a hometown icon
Fun Parks
Buffalo Bayou: Founding Waterway to Modern Park
A drive along the slow green river that made Houston
Civil Rights
Fifth Ward: Frenchtown & the Bloody Fifth
Creole Houston, zydeco, and the churches and record labels of a legendary ward
Haunted
Haunted Downtown Houston
La Carafe, the old Rice Hotel & the spirits of Market Square
Fun Parks
Hermann Park & the Houston Zoo Century
A stroll through the city's great gift of green and the zoo that grew inside it
Live Music
Houston Live Music Trail
White Oak Music Hall, House of Blues and the city's iconic stages
Food & Drink
Houston Taco Trail: Taquerias & Trucks
A drive across Houston's taco geography, from Navigation Boulevard to Long Point
Architecture
Houston's Public Art & Sculpture Trail
A drive between the city's landmark outdoor artworks
Architecture
Houston's Skyline: Esperson to the Glass Towers
A century of ambition read off the downtown skyline
Architecture
Market Square & the Lost Victorian Downtown
The old trading heart of Houston and the cast-iron blocks that survived it
Architecture
Rice University: Architecture & Academic Houston
A walk across the live-oak quads of Houston's landmark campus
Pioneers & Settlement
The Houston Ship Channel & the Port That Built a City
Harrisburg, the Turning Basin, and the deepwater canal that made Houston a port
Architecture
The Old Sixth Ward: Houston's Victorian Streetcar Suburb
The city's largest surviving cluster of Victorian cottages
Civil Rights
Third Ward & Emancipation Park
The soul of Black Houston, from Juneteenth's oldest park to Dowling Street's music halls
Fun Parks
Bayou Greenways: Bike the Bayous
Ride Houston's ribbon of trails along its slow green rivers
Food & Drink
EaDo Breweries & Beer Gardens
A walk through East Downtown's brewery and beer-garden cluster
Architecture
EaDo: East Downtown's Warehouse Reinvention
From rail yards and mattress factories to a soccer stadium and art walls
Civil Rights
Freedmen's Town: Houston's Freedom Colony
The Fourth Ward neighborhood built by people who freed themselves
Haunted
Glenwood & Olivewood: Houston's Historic Cemeteries
Two burial grounds, two very different Houston stories
Pioneers & Settlement
Glenwood Cemetery: Houston's Hilltop of Memory
Aviators, governors, and movie stars on the bluffs above Buffalo Bayou
Architecture
Heights 19th Street Boutiques & Antiques
A walk down the Heights' historic shopping street
Food & Drink
Hillcroft: The Mahatma Gandhi District
Houston's Little India — Indo-Pak eats along Hillcroft
Food & Drink
Houston Coffee Roasters Trail
A drive through the city's best small-batch roasters and cafés
Food & Drink
Houston Heights Brewery Trail
Saint Arnold, Eight Row Flint and the craft-beer corners near the Heights
Live Music
Houston Ice House Trail
Open-air beer, live music, and the coolest institution in Texas
Sports
Houston Marathon: Running the Bayou City
A driving tour of the Chevron Houston Marathon course
Sports
Houston Sports Cathedrals: Astrodome, NRG & Minute Maid
The Eighth Wonder of the World and the stadiums that followed it
Fun Parks
Houston Zoo & Hermann Park Kids' Day
A family walk from the African Forest to the Kinder train
Food & Drink
Houston's Little Saigon: Midtown Pho & Banh Mi
A walkable crawl through Midtown's Vietnamese roots
Military
Houston's WWII Home Front: Shipyards & War Plants
How the Houston Ship Channel built ships and won a war
Food & Drink
Kolache & Donut Trail
Czech pastries, Houston icons, and the great morning drive
Civil Rights
Magnolia Park & the Mexican-American East End
The little city on the bayou that became a heart of Mexican-American Houston
Fun Parks
Memorial Park, the Arboretum & the Eastern Glades
A walking loop through Houston's grandest green space
Food & Drink
Midtown Bar Crawl
A walkable circuit of Houston's densest nightlife district
Food & Drink
Minute Maid Game-Day Eats & Bars
A short pregame walk around the downtown ballpark district
Food & Drink
Montrose Cocktail Crawl
A walkable night of craft cocktails along Westheimer
Live Music
Montrose Vintage & Record Shops
A crate-digging walk through Houston's bohemian quarter
Architecture
Project Row Houses & Third Ward Art
A short walk through the shotgun-house art project that reimagined a neighborhood
Food & Drink
Rice Village: Shop, Eat & Stroll
A stroll through Houston's oldest shopping village
Architecture
River Oaks & Bayou Bend: Houston's Grand Boulevard
The Hogg family's planned garden suburb and the mansions of Houston's wealthiest avenue
Sports
RodeoHouston: The World's Biggest Rodeo & Fairgrounds
A drive around NRG Park, home of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
Fun Parks
Sam Houston Park & the Heritage Houses
Houston's oldest park and the pioneer homes it rescued
Architecture
Sawyer Yards & the Washington Arts District Studios
A walk through the nation's largest working-artist campus
Civil Rights
Second Ward / Segundo Barrio: Houston's Mexican Heart
The East End barrio and its founding institutions
Aviation
Space Center Houston: A Family Day in Orbit
A kid-friendly loop through moon rocks, shuttles, and Mission Control
Architecture
Texas Medical Center: The World's Largest Med City
How a cattle-country oil town built the biggest medical complex on Earth
Food & Drink
The Heights: 19th Street Shops & Beer Trail
Vintage storefronts, folk-art galleries, and Heights icehouses along the old commercial strip
Architecture
The Menil, Rothko Chapel & Montrose's Art Enclave
A quiet walk through the neighborhood the de Menils turned into a work of art
Food & Drink
The New Houston Table: Chef-Driven Dining
The rooms that made Houston a great American food city
Food & Drink
The Original Ninfa's & Tex-Mex Royalty
Where the fajita was born, and the Tex-Mex houses that followed
Architecture
Theater District & the Cultural Heart
The nine-block stage where a boomtown grew a soul
Food & Drink
Washington Avenue After Dark
A walkable run through Houston's late-night party corridor
Film & TV
Wes Anderson's Houston: Rushmore & the Hometown Auteur
The city that raised a director and starred in his breakout film
Architecture
Woodland Heights & Norhill: Bungalow Streetcar Suburbs
Craftsman porches on Houston's first planned suburbs
Film & TV
"Houston, We Have a Problem": Apollo 13 & NASA on Film
The real Mission Control behind Ron Howard's space epic
Civil Rights
Acres Homes: A Freedom Community on the Prairie
The largest unincorporated Black community in the South
Fun Parks
Buffalo Bayou Paddle & the Waugh Bridge Bats at Dusk
A downtown paddle that ends with 250,000 bats over the bayou
Military
Camp Logan & the Houston Riot of 1917
A WWI training camp, a summer of tension, and the events that changed Memorial Park forever
Live Music
Eldorado Ballroom & Third Ward's Jazz & Blues
The Black music heart of Houston, from the Eldorado to Emancipation Park
Aviation
Ellington Field: A Century of Military Aviation
From WWI flight training to astronaut jets, at one historic airfield
Pioneers & Settlement
Energy Corridor & the Oil Majors
The suburban campuses where the oil capital of the world does business
Food & Drink
Frenchy's & Houston Soul Food
Fried chicken, Creole roots, and the Third Ward table
Civil Rights
Gulfton: Houston's Ellis Island
Swingersville to the densest neighborhood in the city — a suburb that became an immigrant gateway
Film & TV
Hellfighters: Red Adair & Houston's Oil-Fire Legend on Film
The Houston firefighter John Wayne played on screen
Live Music
Houston Honky-Tonks & Country Dancehalls
A multi-city drive for two-stepping, live country and neon boots
Fun Parks
Houston Pride & the Montrose Parade
A celebratory walk through the heart of LGBTQ Houston
Sports
Houston Pro Sports Fan Day
Astros, Texans, Rockets, and Dynamo — four teams, one driving loop
Aviation
Houston Takes Flight: Hobby & the 1940 Air Terminal
From a cow pasture landing field to the city's first airline terminal
Food & Drink
Houston's Asiatown: Bellaire Boulevard
The dumpling malls, temples, and immigrant striver blocks of Chinatown West
Architecture
Houston's Folk-Art Trail: Orange Show, Smither Park & Beer Can House
A drive through the visionary, hand-built folk-art monuments of Houston
Haunted
Houston's Haunted Tables
Brennan's, Treebeards & the old Spaghetti Warehouse
Film & TV
Jason's Lyric & Houston's Hood-Cinema Wards
The Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards on film
Military
Memorial Park & Camp Logan: Houston's WWI Chapter
The World War I training camp beneath the city's greatest park
Architecture
Museum District for Kids
A hands-on morning of dinosaurs, butterflies, and giant body parts
Civil Rights
Near Northside & the Mexican-American North
Rail-yard barrios and the Creole heart of Frenchtown
Civil Rights
Olivewood: Houston's First Black Cemetery
A quiet walk through the resting place of Houston's post-emancipation Black founders
Film & TV
Richard Linklater & Boyhood's Houston
The Texas filmmaker's twelve-year masterpiece, on location
Civil Rights
Riverside Terrace: From Jewish Enclave to Black Elite
Houston's 'Jewish River Oaks' and its Black golden age
Food & Drink
Rooftop Bars of Downtown & Montrose
An evening drive for skyline views and sunset cocktails
Pioneers & Settlement
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
Aviation
Space City: NASA & Johnson Space Center
Mission Control, the Saturn V, and the suburb that put a man on the Moon
Pioneers & Settlement
Spring Branch: A German Farming Frontier
Where 1840s German settlers farmed the Buffalo Bayou prairie
Civil Rights
Sunnyside: One of Houston's Oldest Black Neighborhoods
A 1912 freedom community south of the city
Fun Parks
The Art Car Parade & Orange Show Culture
A driving tour of Houston's visionary folk-art scene
Food & Drink
The Breakfast Klub & Houston Brunch
Katfish, waffles, and the city's best late-morning tables
Architecture
The Galleria & Uptown Shopping
A half-day through Texas's grandest shopping district
Food & Drink
The Pappas Dynasty: A Houston Restaurant Empire
From a 1966 coffee shop to more than 100 restaurants — a family food story
Architecture
Uptown & the Galleria: Post Oak's Rise
How a developer's Italian-inspired mall turned open ranchland into a second downtown
Food & Drink
Viet-Cajun Crawfish Crawl
Houston's own garlic-butter mudbug invention, along Bellaire
Fun Parks
Bayou City Art Festival & Memorial Park
Open-air art and Houston's greatest green space
Film & TV
Brewster McCloud: Robert Altman Takes Flight in the Astrodome
The first film ever shot inside the Eighth Wonder of the World
Fun Parks
Downtown Aquarium Houston
Sharks, a train ride, and a Ferris wheel on the edge of downtown
Food & Drink
Houston's Original Greek Festival & Cultural Fairs
Greek food and dance, plus a taste of Houston's festival calendar
Civil Rights
Independence Heights: Texas's First Black City
The prairie community north of Houston that governed itself before Houston swallowed it
Haunted
Jefferson Davis Hospital: Houston's Most Haunted
A hospital built over a forgotten cemetery
Aviation
Lone Star Flight Museum & the Warbirds of Ellington
Restored World War II aircraft that still take to the Texas sky
Live Music
Numbers & Houston's New Wave / Goth Legacy
A Montrose night drive through the city's alternative underground
Fun Parks
Sheldon Lake & the East Houston Wetlands
A wetland park, a hatchery reborn as marsh, and the tallest tower in any Texas state park
Architecture
The Buffalo Bayou Cistern & Underground Houston
A short walk to the city's hidden subterranean cathedral
Live Music
The Continental Club & Houston's Live Music History
A Midtown crawl through the venues that keep Houston playing after dark
Fun Parks
The Health Museum & Hermann Park Fun
A hands-on museum and a green afternoon in the Museum District
Sports
The Houston Open & Memorial Park Golf
A driving tour of the muni course that hosts the PGA Tour
Haunted
The Julia Ideson Building & the Phantom Violinist
Houston's beautiful old library and its resident ghost
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