Last updated : Monday, July 11, 2011

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13 Best Places to Visit in Texas

Looking to explore the Lone Star State? We asked Fox News correspondent Kris Gutierrez for tips on visiting his home state of Texas.

Must see tourist attractions:

1.    Cowboys Stadium (Arlington, TX) -- home of America’s team 

 The Dallas Cowboys play in the most elaborate stadium in the world.  It’s massive; it's three million square feet and it cost more than one billion dollars to build.  You can even get sushi at some concession stands … really!  The video board inside the stadium is 60 yards long, weighs one million pounds and took three factories in Japan two years to build.  

Everything really is bigger in Texas! Tours are available.

2.    Space Center Houston  (Houston, TX)

Go experience our nation’s space program through exhibits, attractions, special presentations and hands-on activities that tell the story of NASA's manned space flight program. SCH is the only place in the world where visitors can see astronauts train for missions, touch a real moon rock, land a shuttle, and take a behind-the-scenes tour of NASA.

3.    The State Capitol (Austin, TX)

4.    The Alamo (San Antonio, TX)

5.    The Presidential Libraries: 

        Lyndon B. Johnson (Austin, TX) 

        George H.W. Bush (College Station, TX) 

        George W. Bush - to be completed in 2013 (Dallas, TX) 

Favorite Restaurants:

1.    Trinity Hall (Dallas, TX)

2.    Bob’s Steak and Chop House Grapevine, TX

3.    Uncle Julio’s Fine Mexican Cuisine Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX

4.    Hibiscus Dallas, TX

5.    Pappas Burger Houston, TX

6.    Iron Works (Austin, TX) Austin, TX

Hidden Gems:

1.    Morgan’s Wonderland (San Antonio, TX)

2.    Fossil Rim Wildlife Center (Glen Rose, TX)

 

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