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3 weird places to visit in Houston when travelling with a charter bus
Houston is the biggest city in the Southern U.S. and has the third tallest skyline in North America. It also has a seven mile system of skywalks and tunnels link downtown buildings that house a lot of restaurant and shops. This is a way for visitors and local people to find some shade in the summer or keep away from the rain.
When visiting this city first you must think of a safe and comfortable way to travel. So a good idea would be to rent one of the charter buses in Houston TX. If you’re curious by nature and you have a taste for the unusual there are also a lot of places here that you might find to your liking. Here are three that you could add to your itinerary and give to your driver after you book one of the charter buses in Houston TX.
Beer Cans House
A man named John Milkovisch, a retired upholsterer, discovered he had a lot of time on his hands so he took a pretty unusual hobby when he started collecting beer cans. But this is not the weirdest part of the story. He got up one morning, walked in his backyard and took a look at the house. He thought there’s something missing. That’s when he suddenly got the idea to redecorate. So in 1968 he started to cover his entire house with beer cans, thus creating over the years the most original and strange house in all of Houston. Nowadays the house, decorated with approximately 50.000 beer cans, is the most popular residence from the entire city, attracting thousands of people from all over the world.
National Museum of Funeral History
After you’ve seen what you can do with beer cans, you might want to the chauffeur of one of the charter buses in Houston TX you’ve rented to take you to the National Museum of Funeral History. It is a one of kind museum in the northern part of the city, founded in 1992 and it is full of artifacts and exhibits from the death care industry. So you’ll be seeing here a lot of interesting old hearses, you will get information about the embalming process during the Civil War. The museum display the biggest figurative coffins made by professional carpenters in the Greater Accra Region in the Republic of Ghana. Furthermore you can also take a look at a replica of Abraham Lincoln’s coffin, the 16th president of America.
Big Bubble
If you go to the Preston Street Bridge you will discover a little red button that has no label under it. Many of locals don’t even know about its existence. If you are curious enough to push it you will see a large expulsion of bubbling water that will form near the shore of the Buffalo Bayou. The purpose of this Big Bubble is to ventilate the water. So without the push of this intriguing button that stirs everyone’s curiosity, all of the Bayou underwater life will die. Contrary to what one might think, many passer byes, young and old, find amusement in pushing this mysterious button.
