Unique Things To Do In Dallas Texas

An Overview of Dallas

Dallas is an enormous metropolitan area when combined with the nearby city of Fort Worth (DFW). The metropolitan area is largely urbanized with many museums, restaurants and shopping centers. The majority of Dallas is comprised of flat lands, prairies, developed neighborhoods and a somewhat decent public-transportation system known as the DRAT system. With numerous malls, markets, art venues and bars, there are many unique things to do in Dallas.

Unique Things To Do In Dallas Texas

River Ranch at Texas Horse Park

This is a non-profit equestrian even facility found near Trinity Forest. River Ranch’s services include small riding trails, beginner riding lessons, event bookings and small festivals.

The Wild Detectives

A unique little indie-bookstore combined with a café.

Bishop Arts District

A series of streets home to several nightlife venues, fashion stores and colorful art shops.

Scarborough Renaissance Festival

A seasonal Renaissance festival filled with shows, themed-shops, unique stores, costumed employees and medieval sporting events. The festival is generally open from April until the end of May.

Creation Evidence Museum

This museum tries to teach guests about Creationism as a scientific theory through displays showing models of Noah’s arc, false fossil footprints which overlap dinosaur imprints with humans and other pseudo-theories designed to align with Biblical texts.

Deep Ellum

Deep Ellum is one of Dallas’ more vibrant entertainment districts. The neighborhood is known for street murals, tucked-away art galleries and extremely popular indie-and-blues concerts.

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center

This is a drive-thru non-profit conservation safari where free-ranged endangered species and exotic animals range. The facility has over 1,000 animals and 50 species. The safari drive through is one of the more unique things to do in Dallas.

Botanical Garden at Heritage Park

This is a modest, peaceful location full of walking paths, shady trails and a fish pond.

State Fair of Texas

This is an annual, popular state fair full of fried food, livestock contests and carnival-like events. The State Fair usually begins on the last Friday of September and ends roughly 24 days later.

Radha Kalachandji Temple

An extremely peaceful house of worship and meditation, the Radha Kalachandji Temple of Dallas includes an attatched vegetarian restaurant named “Govinda’s.” The site hosts communal events and dances as well as regular worship sessions.

The Free Man Cajun Café & Lounge

The Free Man Cajun Café & Lounge is a restaurant which serves Cajun classics with local jazz bands playing nightly.

Giant Eyeball

The Giant Eyeball of Dallas is a 30-foot tall fiberglass sculpture which looks like a human eyeball seated in a fenced garden.

Museum of Illusions Dallas

This is a museum located in downtown Dallas with interactive optical illusion art displays and photography illusion exhibits.

Wild Bill’s Western Store

This western apparel store located in the heart of Dallas sells cowboy hats, riding boots and other signiture western gear out of a historic redbrick building.

The Dallas World Aquarium

An excellent walkthrough aquarium with walking trails following replica habitats with small waterfalls, exotic birds, tiny mammals and fish ponds.

Perot Museum of Nature and Science

This is a large, distinctly-shaped natural history museum in Dallas. The museum is home to numerous dinosaur skeletons, an earthquake simulator, mineral displays and more.

Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas

This is an art museum in downtown Dallas specifically dedicated to artworks stemming from Asian cultures and influences, including China, Japan, India, Korea, Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Myanmar and the Philippines.

Dallas Museum of Art

Otherwise known as DMA, this is a free-general-admission museum containing galleries, exhibitions and a small café.

Klyde Warren Park

This is a unique sustainable landscaping project which transformed a former freeway into an urban park. The park operates at the street-level over a functional highway below.

The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum: The Samurai Collection

The excellent musuem preserves a collection of unique samurai tools armor and texts.

Peticolas Brewing Company Taproom

This is a popular taproom operating out of a former warehouse with an endlessly rotating list of housemade brews.

The Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Located on the shores of White Rock Lake, this large outdoor venue contains several sculptures and long walking trails through groves and shrubbery paths.

NorthPark Center

This is an upscale and popular shopping mall filled with unique artworks on it’s lower levels, as well as numerous shops, stores and chain restaurants.

Free Play Arcade

This is an arcade venue where visitors pay a cover charge to play unlimited old-school arcade games and pinball machines mixed in with more modern variants.

White Rock Lake

This is a large artificial lake with popular biking trails, lakeside views and small parks.

Better Than Sex- A Dessert Restaurant

This dessert venue found in Plano has a menu with many of the items describing scandalous acts.

Dallas Vintage Shop

The Dallas Vintage Shop is large vintage clothing & costume store with entertaining attire from the 1900s onward.

Truck Yard

The Truck Yard is an outdoor bar-garden with a huge open-air space for live music, food trucks, booze vendors and the occasional event. Dogs allowed.

Monster Mini Golf

This miniture golf venue found inside a shopping center has holes themed after spooky creatures with many of the artworks and courses within glowing in the dark.

Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge

This is a large wildlife sanctuary for migratory birds, wildlife and protected marshes. Aside from have a few short wildflower hiking trails, there’s also numerous inactive oil pumps standing over the water.

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