Take a walk through the 23.5 acres of public garden and you'll find that although every acre is beautiful, every acre is not the same. Here are flowers local and flowers exotic, roses and bromeliads. The Warren Loose Conservatory is nestled within the gardens and hosts thousands of tropical plants.

Big Thicket is an American biological crossroads, a mixture of sandhills and bogs, plains and eastern forests. There are 186 species of birds here, from Eastern bluebirds to roadrunners, and 85 species of trees. A thousand species of flowering plants grow in the thicket, among them four species of i...

Edison may seem at first glance to be an East Coast figure and an East Coast phenomenon, but his inventions and innovations touched everyone. This museum is a reflection of this. The Edison museum collects Edison's artifacts and interprets them through interactive exhibits. It's the only museum of i...

Ford Park Arena is a massive facility that hosts both the Texas Wildcatters hockey team and the Beaumont Drillers football team. If you follow either sport, you'll want to check out their schedule. And if you don't, you'll find Ford Park hosts a wider variety of sports and events than even those.

The Museum of Gulf Coast is a traditional history museum to a certain extent, covering the long history of the Gulf Coast to the present. But the traditional history is only a small part of it. Texas's many, many famous musicians are also covered here, as are famous sports figures like Jimmy Johnson...

This is excellent historical coverage of the discovery of the Lucas oil gusher at Spindletop in 1901. What may be most exciting (for the kids, anyway) is that the replica oil gusher actually gushes.