Landmarks & Murals
Dallas stories with pins.
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Landmarks
LiveBonnie & Clyde in Dallas
Three pins: West Dallas station site, Clyde at Western Heights, Bonnie at Crown Hill.
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LiveThe Kennedy X — Elm Street
This is the single most visited square of asphalt in Dallas. The story of that day still shapes how the world sees this city.
Jidanni / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveDealey Plaza
The plaza is both a city park and a crime scene the world never forgot.
Original picture taken by Nathan Stringer / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →
LiveThe Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
If you are going to understand what happened here, start inside this building — not on a conspiracy tour.
Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveThe Grassy Knoll
The most argued piece of lawn in American history — and still free to walk.
Infrogmation of New Orleans / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →
LiveJohn F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza
Dallas's official architectural answer to the assassination — designed by one of America's great modernists.
Mchristo19 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveTriple Underpass
The finish line of the motorcade route — geography as destiny.
MarkTSnow / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LivePioneer Plaza — The Cattle Drive
This is Dallas before skyscrapers — the cattle trail cast in metal so you can walk through it.
Dfwcre8tive / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0Open →
LivePioneer Park Cemetery
The people who founded Dallas are buried next to the bronze herd that mythologizes how Texas wealth moved.
LittleT889 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveReunion Tower
If there is one silhouette that means Dallas on a postcard, it is this tower.
Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveMargaret Hunt Hill Bridge
Proof Dallas will spend big on a beautiful object — and that the Trinity side of town is part of the story now.
Marco Becerra / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0Open →
LiveRonald Kirk Pedestrian Bridge
A freeway leftover turned into a public living room with one of the best cheap skyline angles in town.
FeaturingDallas / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0Open →
LiveThe Eye (Giant Eyeball)
Weird, free-to-see-from-the-street art that proves downtown is not only banks and memorials.
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LiveOld Red Courthouse
The 19th-century face of Dallas County — the city before glass towers.
Leaflet / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →
LiveThanks-Giving Square
A deliberate pause button in the middle of downtown — and a Philip Johnson design most tourists walk past.
Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →Dallas Pegasus (original at Omni)
This horse is Dallas. Oil money, neon, and a skyline logo you can finally stand next to.
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LiveMagnolia Hotel rooftop Pegasus
The horse that still flies over downtown — sibling to the Omni original.
Dfwcre8tive / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0Open →Barrow Family Filling Station site (West Dallas)
West Dallas raised Clyde Barrow. The station is gone; the story is not.
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LiveClyde Barrow's Grave — Western Heights Cemetery
One half of America's most mythologized outlaw couple is in Oak Cliff dirt.
Michael W. Pocock / Wikimedia Commons / CC0Open →
LiveBonnie Parker's Grave — Crown Hill Memorial Park
The other half of the story — and a reminder that families, not Hollywood, decided the ending.
Michael W. Pocock / Wikimedia Commons / CC0Open →
LiveFort Worth Stockyards
If Dallas has the bankers' skyline, Fort Worth kept the cattle — and still parades them down the street.
Mark Fisher / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →
LiveSundance Square
Fort Worth's answer to a European plaza — cowboy history under string lights.
Renelibrary / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveBass Performance Hall
The angels are Fort Worth's downtown mascot as much as the Stockyards steers.
Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveAT&T Stadium
America's Team plays here, and the building is a landmark you can see from the highways.
Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveGlobe Life Field
DFW's big-league baseball home — proof Arlington built a full entertainment city.
Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →Texas Live!
Where Arlington's sports city eats and drinks before kickoff.
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LiveSouthfork Ranch
For a generation, this house WAS Dallas — even though it is in Parker.
Sf46 at en.wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons / Public domainOpen →
LiveKlyde Warren Park
The place locals actually hang out between museums and office towers.
John P Salvatore / Wikimedia Commons / CC0Open →
LiveFair Park & Big Tex
Texas flexes here every October — Art Deco bones under funnel-cake smoke.
Photo: Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0Open →
LiveDallas City Hall
Brutalist drama with a Moore sculpture out front — civic architecture with a movie career.
Kent Wang / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0Open →
LivePerot Museum of Nature and Science
Science museum as skyline object.
Joe Mabel / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →
LiveNasher Sculpture Center
World-class sculpture garden without leaving downtown.
Photo: Andreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0Open →Dallas Museum of Art
Free world-class art in the middle of Dallas. Use it.
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LiveWhite Rock Lake
Locals' lake — not a resort, a habit.
IcedCowboyCoffee / Wikimedia Commons / CC0Open →
LiveCedar Hill State Park
Real Texas outdoors without leaving the Metroplex beltway world.
Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →
LiveGrapevine Main Street Historic District
Small-town Texas Main Street that still works — next to DFW Airport convenience.
Raymondlafourchette / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →
LiveTraveling Man — Walking Tall
Deep Ellum's stainless greeter — sculpture and neighborhood mascot in one.
Jeffrey Beall / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →Traveling Man — Waiting on a Train
The one kids remember.
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LiveBishop Arts District
Oak Cliff's postcard — independent Dallas, not chain Dallas.
Drumguy8800 (talk) (Uploads) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0Open →
LiveTexas Motor Speedway
When engines are the soundtrack of North Texas, this is the source.
Zach Catanzareti Photo / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0Open →
LiveDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
Hard history, told carefully, in the same downtown visitors treat as a selfie loop.
MacTheWikiman / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →AT&T Discovery District
Modern downtown spectacle — screens instead of steers.
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LiveWill Rogers Memorial Center
Fort Worth's showgrounds cathedral — where livestock culture still fills the seats.
Michael Barera / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Open →Murals
Deep Ellum TV
Frank Campagna · Deep Ellum
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Adrian Torres · Deep Ellum
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Josh Mittag · Deep Ellum
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Matriart Studio · Deep Ellum
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FAILE · Deep Ellum
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Dusty Gilpin · Deep Ellum
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Dan and Cathryn Colcer · Deep Ellum
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Steve Hunter · Deep Ellum
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Ricardo Paniagua · Deep Ellum
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Unknown · Deep Ellum
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Frank Campagna · Deep Ellum
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Dan Colcer · Deep Ellum
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Dan Kitchener · Deep Ellum
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Various / neighborhood project · Deep Ellum
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Various writers (graffiti jam) · Deep Ellum
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Preston Pannek and Adrienne Creasey · Deep Ellum
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Unlisted on Visit Dallas roundup · Bishop Arts
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Community / Oak Cliff muralists (verify on-site credit) · Oak Cliff
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Verify on-site · Bishop Arts / Oak Cliff
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Multiple artists (Mag & May project) · Near Southside
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Verify on-site credit · Westside / Cultural
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Verify on-site · The Union / Near Southside orbit
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Multiple (incl. Birth of the Unicorn Cowgirl) · Foundry District
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Verify on-site · Near Southside / South Main
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Live42 Murals Project (Deep Ellum legacy)
Multiple artists (2012 project) · Deep Ellum
Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons / Public domainOpen →Good-Latimer Tunnel murals (legacy)
Multiple (Deep Ellum Community Association, 1992+) · Deep Ellum
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Verify on-site · Deep Ellum
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Various · Lower Greenville
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Richard Haas (trompe-l'oeil tradition; verify plaque) · Sundance Square
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Preston Pannek and Adrienne Creasey · Deep Ellum
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LiveMo London memorial mural
Community / Deep Ellum artists · Deep Ellum
Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons / Public domainOpen →Anthony Bourdain mural
Deep Ellum street artists (verify credit on wall) · Deep Ellum
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