Not to miss

Fair Park

Created in 1936, when Dallas hosted the Texas Centennial Exposition, Fair Park is chock full of concrete art-deco architecture and museums. The park is also home to Cotton Bowl stadium and the Texas State Fair. Be warned that Fair Park is not in the best neighbourhood, but is perfectly safe during the day.

Conspiracy Museum

Do you want more proof that Oswald didn't act alone? The Conspiracy Museum looks a bit like a student's history project, but raises enough questions to make you think. Across N Market St is the Kennedy Memorial, a simple but profound sculpture by architect Phillip Johnson.

Through somewhat amateurish displays, the Conspiracy Museum posits that Kennedy's assassination was a coup d'état to shore up the military-industrial complex that had been gaining strength in the US since WWII. It also suggests that the same people and forces that killed Kennedy were later responsible for the deaths of Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick friend Mary Jo Kopechne (Ted himself was the real target) and the 269 people aboard Korean Airlines Flight 007, shot down in 1983.

The museum also delves into other assassinations from history, including those of American presidents Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield and William McKinley.

Nasher Sculpture Center

This showplace includes modern masterworks from the collection of Raymond Nasher, who developed the NorthPark Center mall, and his late wife, Patsy. The Nashers started collecting art in the 1950s and wound up with what might be the greatest privately held sculpture collection in the world, with works by Calder, de Kooning, Rodin, Serra and many more.