Not to miss

Nasher Sculpture Center

Modern-art installations shine both outside and in at the fabulous glass-and-steel Nasher Sculpture Center and gardens.

Fair Park

Home to the state fair and Cotton Bowl stadium, Fair Park was created for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. Today art-deco buildings contain seven museums, focusing on science, railroad history, African Americans, women's history… This is not in the best neighborhood, but they're trying to revitalize the place, and it's 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 its 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.