Dallas, Texas is often referred to as a mishmash of ultramodern skyscrapers, coupled with traditional and low-cost housing. It has one of the largest art districts in the US, with some of the best museums with a pulsating nightlife.
In recent years huge swathes of the city have been in a way reinvented. Take the Design District, for instance, that has breathed new life into what is an austere neighbourhood of large warehouses. While the city is tied to the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, it has come a long way since then. Today, it is an exciting and fun place frequented by thousands of domestic and international tourists alike. Tons of people are moving to Dallas, TX everyday and remodeling their homes.
In this article, we’ll look at some of the best most fun places to be in the city.
Dealey Plaza’s Sixth Floor Museum
Speaking of JFK’s assignation, you’ll find everything about it at the Sixth Floor Museum. Opened in 1989, you can walk all the way up to where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shot from, and all the while finding out about JFK’s career and the overall social landscape of the 60s. It covers things like the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement.
You’ll find hundreds of photographs from the crime scene and an analysis of the Zapruder film, which was donated to the museum in 1999. Furthermore, there are various conspiracy theories that are touched upon, so almost every angle you can think of is covered.
Lee Harvey’s vantage point can also be seen behind glass. Today, this space is as cluttered as it was back in 1963 when he fired those infamous shots.
The Arts District
It is the largest urban artists district in the US, covering a whopping 20 blocks across the south-east of Uptown. It is the rarest concentration of various cultural attractions you’ll ever see. There are plenty of attractions in the area like the Klyde Warren Park, Winspear Opera House and the Perot Museum of Nature and Science.
Other notable institutions are the Dallas Black Dance Theatre over on the east with the Dallas Museum in the west. You’ll also find many monuments that depict the city’s architectural history like the neo-Gothic Cathedral Shrine of Virgin Guadalupe built-in 1902.
Klyde Warren Park
A small patch of Downtown Dallas over in the Arts District was given a new incarnation in 2010, with the Woodall Rogers Freeway moving underground, which made way for the new public park. It was dreamed up originally as a place for people to gather, there is a huge lawn, with tree-lined pedestrian promenade, complete with children’s park, restaurant, reading room, botanical garden, urban games, and a performance pavilion.
Over $10 million was donated for the park by Kelcy Warren after whom it has been named.
