Dallas

Giant Eyeball

A thirty-foot fibreglass eyeball on a lawn between downtown towers, veined and blue and modelled on the artist's own eye.

Reunion Tower

The 470-foot geodesic ball that defines the skyline, with indoor and outdoor observation levels and a full circuit of the metroplex.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science

A good science museum in a genuinely strange building, with a glass escalator running up the outside of a concrete cube.

Nasher Sculpture Center

Modern sculpture in a Renzo Piano pavilion opening onto a walled garden, which is where most of the collection actually is.

Dallas Museum of Art

An encyclopedic collection with free general admission, which is rarer among big American art museums than it should be.

Crow Museum of Asian Art

A free collection of Asian art in the arts district, small enough to do properly in an hour and usually almost empty.

Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum

A Holocaust museum that continues into an American civil rights wing, which changes what the building is arguing rather than just what it covers.

The Dallas World Aquarium

Laid out as a descent from a rainforest canopy down to the tanks, so you walk down through birds and sloths before you reach any water.

Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Sixty-six acres running down to White Rock Lake, at its best in spring when the tulip planting goes in.

Klyde Warren Park

Five acres of park on a deck built over a sunken freeway, stitching two districts back together. Food trucks, lawn games, and traffic underneath you.

Kalachandji's Restaurant and Palace

A Hare Krishna temple on a residential East Dallas street with a vegetarian Indian restaurant in its courtyard, open to anyone.

Deep Ellum

One of the city's oldest neighbourhoods and once a blues and jazz centre. Now around thirty live music venues and street art on nearly every wall.