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• African American Museum
Housing one of the nation's most extensive and best collections of folk art, the museum at Fair Park is dedicated to preservation and display of historical, artistic and cultural contributions made by African Americans.
MAP IT - 3536 Grand Avenue, Dallas (214) 565-9026
• Age of Steam Railroad Museum
This outdoor exhibit at Fair Park allows visitors to relive the golden age of the passenger train, and features the world's largest diesel electric locomotives.
MAP IT - 1105 Washington Street, Dallas (214) 428-0101
• American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum
American Airlines history unfolds here from humble beginnings through five eras of flight. Video presentations, interactive displays, a 2-seater flight simulator, an IWERKS movie "Spirit of America," and other flight-related activities are on tap. Housed in a glass hangar is the Flagship Knoxville, a restored 1940s DC-3.
MAP IT - 4601 Highway 360, Fort Worth (817) 967-5737
• American Airlines Center
For concerts and sporting events, check the AAC website for upcoming attractions.
MAP IT - 2500 Victory Avenue
Dallas, TX
• Cavanaugh Flight Museum
The Cavanaugh collects, maintains, and flies an extensive collection of aircraft, as well as artwork and artifacts from World War I through the Vietnam conflict. The significant and rare aircraft comprise one of the nation's largest private aviation collections.
MAP IT - 4572 Claire Chennault Street, Addison (972) 380-8800
• Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park
Marine and freshwater fish, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates from Walking Batfish and Electric Torpedo Rays to a six-foot-long Alligator Gar all star at this Art Deco facility at Fair Park, built in 1936 to coincide with the Texas Centennial, with a saltwater section added in 1964. Special attractions include the Amazon Flooded Forest, and the World of Aquatic Diversity. As the first to breed and rear Texas Blind Salamanders, the aquarium also is known for maintaining and breeding the desert pupfish, and is one of only two aquariums to breed the now extinct species Megupsilon aporus.
MAP IT - 1462 First Avenue, Dallas (214) 670-8443
• Dallas Museum of Art
Formerly the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the Dallas Museum of Art traces beginnings to 1903, with the facility opening in 1909 in Fair Park under the name Free Public Art Gallery of Dallas. In 1991, a $30-million expansion was designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes to help create mini-museums. The old gallery now houses the Museum of Africa and Asia, the Museum of Europe, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Nancy and Jake Hamon Building, completed in 1993, houses the Museum of the Americas, with art from Pre-Columbian to the mid-1940s.
MAP IT - 1717 North Harwood Street, Dallas (241) 922-1200
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• J. Erik Jonsson Central Library
Named in memory of Texas Instruments' J. Erik Jonsson, this eight-floor library has a copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed on July 4, 1776. Also on the seventh floor on permanent display in a special room is First Folio, printed in 1623, and the first complete printing of Shakespeare's plays. In the second floor Children's Center, is a hand-crafted scale model of the 8th century Viking ship Drakkar.
MAP IT - 1515 Young Street, Dallas (214) 670-1400
• Lone Star Park at Grand Prairie
This 36,000-square-foot pavilion is open six days a week for thoroughbred and quarterhorse racing during Thoroughbred Season, April-July and Quarterhorse Season, October-November.
MAP IT - 1000 Lone Star Parkway, Grand Prairie (972) 263-7223
• Nasher Sculpture Center
Occupying a full city block downtown, the Nasher Sculpture Center (opening in mid-October, 2003) features a 54,000-square-foot building and a 1.5 acre sculpture garden designed by architect Renso Piano in collaboration with landscape architect Peter Walker. The $70-million Center, adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art, provides a home for the internationally acclaimed Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection of modern and contemporary works. Rodin, Degas, Picasso, Matisse, and many other renowned artists are represented. Raymond Nasher was one of the first real estate developers to put art in commercial complexes.
MAP IT - 2001 Flora Street, Dallas (214) 242-5150
• Sharkarosa Wildlife Ranch
Sharkarosa is a non-profit wildlife ranch with exotic and native animals including lemurs, camels, zebra, sloth, and kangaroos, along with longhorns, buffalo and more. Safari tours, kid's train rides, and helicopter rides are part of the fun, with party facilities and a bounce house on grounds.
MAP IT - 11670 Massey Road, Pilot Point (940) 686-4600
• Six Flags Over Texas
From giant-sized coasters to family-friendly rides, Six Flags Over Texas has thrilled generations. Now Superman Tower of Power, the tallest ride of its kind in the world at 325 feet high, allows guests to fly like the Man of Steel himself.
MAP IT - Intersection of Interstate 30 and Highway 360, Arlington.
• Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
Each year more than two million visitors pay homage at downtown's Dealey Plaza where John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The Sixth Floor Museum within the former Texas School Book Depository building (where the investigative Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald shot the president) contains a permanent exhibition on JFK's life, times, death, and legacy. Two evidentiary areas tied with the shooting are preserved, including the alleged sniper's perch. Artifacts include the Zapruder camera that recorded the infamous footage, and the FBI model of Dealey Plaza used by the Warren Commission.
MAP IT - 411 Elm Street, Dallas (214) 747-6660
• Southfork Ranch
In 1978, a legend was created rivaling any other series in television history, as an unknown Texas ranch became recognized worldwide. The series was "Dallas," the family the Ewings, and the ranch was Southfork, where the Dallas legend lives on well beyond the 356 episodes produced. Guided tours of the Ewing mansion and grounds spotlight memorabilia from the gun that shot J.R. to Lucy's wedding dress and Jock's Lincoln Continental. Visitors can roam the ranch, eat at Miss Ellie's Deli and shop in two themed retail stores, heavy on Southfork-label merchandise.
MAP IT - 3700 Hogge Road, Allen 75002
