#1 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Downtown Austin (Neighborhood)
West Lake Hills TX
~0.15 miles from Austin city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Austin Public Library
Austin TX
~0.16 miles from Austin city center
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Austin History Center
Austin TX
~0.16 miles from Austin city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Paramount Theater
Austin TX
~0.17 miles from Austin city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Frost Bank Tower
Austin TX
~0.19 miles from Austin city center
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Austin Museum of Art
Austin TX
~0.22 miles from Austin city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
360 Condominiums
512 Rio Grande St. Austin TX - 512-477-0360
~0.26 miles from Austin city center
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360 Condominiums is a residential skyscraper at 360 Nueces Street http://www.lifesurroundsyou.com/
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Austin City Hall
Austin TX
~0.27 miles from Austin city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Downtown (Neighborhood)
Austin TX
~0.27 miles from Austin city center
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Casual, cosmopolitan, eclectic, five-star, techie, hippie, historic, chic, intellectual, fashionable, artistic, and weird… The adjectives used to describe Downtown Austin are as numerous and diverse as the people who live, work and visit here.
Within a mile of the historic intersection of 6th and Congress Avenue — where Angelina Eberly fired a cannon to save the state archives and instead saved the Capitol — you'll find a treasure of arts, culture and interesting things to do. More than this, you'll find a center where government, education, business and people come together in one of the most energetic, creative yet somehow laid-back cities in the entire country.
Ask the college student who came here 30 years ago (he may be the PhD. candidate waiting your table): there's something about this town. People would rather do anything than leave Austin. It's the best place to live, work, play or develop — whether it's a new mixed-use project, a new nanotechnology invention or even the thesis for that dissertation you've been postponing. There's just something about Austin, and Downtown: As Austin as it Gets.™
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Governor's Mansion
Austin TX
~0.29 miles from Austin city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Austin Children's Museum
West Lake Hills TX
~0.29 miles from Austin city center
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Old Bakery and Emporium
Austin TX
~0.31 miles from Austin city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Travis County Law Library
Austin TX
~0.34 miles from Austin city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
O. Henry House Museum
Austin TX
~0.39 miles from Austin city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Sixth Street
Manor TX
~0.44 miles from Austin city center
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Esther's Follies
Austin TX
~0.48 miles from Austin city center
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Esther's Follies is a modern day vaudeville theatre located on 6th Street in downtown Austin, Texas. The group is named after actress Esther Williams. Acts incorporate magic, juggling, singing, dancing, and sketches on current events. The show is fast paced, and most of the acts incorporate a comedic theme.
The show lasts about one and a half hours with a short intermission, and runs every weekend evening from Thursday to Saturday. 2007 marked Esther's Follies' 30th anniversary of performances. The cast has changed significantly since its inception but still includes the founders, Michael Shelton and Shannon Sedwick, who continue to make appearances during the show.
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge
Austin TX
~0.49 miles from Austin city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Neal Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center
E.Ceasar Chavez St. Austin TX
~0.53 miles from Austin city center
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The Neal Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center is a multi-purpose convention center located in Austin, Texas, USA. The building is also home to the Austin Toros basketball team with a seating capacity of 3,200.
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Town Lake (Neighborhood)
West Lake Hills
~0.56 miles from Austin city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Austin Convention Center
Austin TX
~0.57 miles from Austin city center
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The Neal Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center is a multi-purpose convention center located in Austin, Texas. The building is also home to the Austin Toros basketball team with a seating capacity of 3,200.
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Texas State Capitol
Manor TX
~0.58 miles from Austin city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Palmer Auditorium
Austin TX
~0.80 miles from Austin city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum
Austin TX
~0.88 miles from Austin city center
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The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, is a museum owned by the State of Texas dedicated to telling "The Story of Texas." It is named after former Texas Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock, who championed its creation. The museum is located at 1800 North Congress Avenue in Austin, a few blocks north of the Texas State Capitol. The museum has three floors of interactive exhibits, a special effects theater, and an IMAX Theatre.
Construction broke ground on April 15, 1999 at a cost of US$80 million. The museum opened on San Jacinto Day, (April 21), 2001.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Frank Erwin Center
Austin TX
~0.91 miles from Austin city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Blanton Museum of Art
Austin TX
~0.94 miles from Austin city center
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The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin is one of the foremost university art museums in the country, and has the largest and most comprehensive collection of art in Central Texas. The museum welcomes and engages all visitors by offering personal, extraordinary experiences that connect art and ideas, reaching within and beyond the university to stimulate the thriving, creative community that is Austin, Texas. The Blanton's permanent collection of more than 18,000 works is recognized for its European paintings, an encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings, and modern and contemporary American and Latin American art.
Located at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Congress Avenue, the museum is across the street from the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and is adjacent to downtown Austin.
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Clarksville (Neighborhood)
Austin TX
~1.06 miles from Austin city center
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Clarksville is a city in Red River County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,883. It is the county seat of Red River County.
Clarksville is the birthplace of:
John Edward Williams, author of the National Book Award fiction co-winner for 1973 Augustus and of the novel Stoner.
Euell Gibbons, author of cookbooks and foraging guides, proponent of natural diets, and television personality popular in the 1960s and 1970s
J.D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald a few hours after Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.
Barney Cannon (1955-2009), a Country music deejay long associated with radio station KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana, got his start in Clarksville in 1972, as a 17-year-old announcer.
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
Austin TX
~1.07 miles from Austin city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
George Washington Carver Museum
Austin TX
~1.24 miles from Austin city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
Darrell K. Royal - Texas Memorial Stadium
Manor TX
~1.28 miles from Austin city center
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Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (formerly just War Memorial Stadium, Memorial Stadium, and Texas Memorial Stadium), located in Austin, Texas, is home to the University of Texas Longhorn football team. The current official stadium seating capacity of 100,119 currently makes the stadium the largest football venue by seating capacity in the state of Texas, the largest in the Big 12 Conference, the fourth largest non-racing stadium in the United States and the NCAA, and the seventh largest non-racing stadium in the world.
While DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium has the largest seating capacity in the state of Texas, the NFL Dallas Cowboys' new stadium, Cowboys Stadium, has an overall capacity of 111,000 due to a seating capacity of 80,000 plus party plazas capable of accommodating up to 31,000 standing spectators.
The stadium attendance record of 101,297 spectators was set on September 19, 2009, when Texas beat Texas Tech 34-24.
The stadium has been expanded several times since its original opening. The University's most recent project, a $27 million expansion and renovation project to the south end zone facilities, was completed in August 2009. For the 2009 season, 4,525 permanent bleacher seats were constructed, which allowed the stadium to become the first football stadium in Texas capable of seating in excess of 100,000 persons and brought the stadium to its current seating capacity.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Austin
University of Texas Tower
Austin TX
~1.29 miles from Austin city center
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