Fort Worth, TX

Walk the Cultural District's clustered museums — Kahn's Kimbell, Ando's Modern, the Amon Carter, Will Rogers Art Deco, the Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and a serene Japanese garden to close.

Walk Main Street from the pink-granite courthouse through Sundance Square to a downtown water canyon — castles, Western art, 48-foot angels, and the outlaw district that named it all.

Cross the tracks into the Near Southside — an Art Deco rail palace, a hospital district that held on, the murals and bungalows of Magnolia and Fairmount, and the neighborhood that bet on itself and won.

Walk el Norte, the most Mexican neighborhood in Fort Worth: the gateway off North Main, the 90-year legend of Joe T. Garcia's, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the panaderías and mercados, Marine Park, and a living barrio that's still proudly itself.

The story of Black Fort Worth: the Historic Southside, the jazz miracle of I.M. Terrell High, Opal Lee's walk to make Juneteenth a national holiday, the National Juneteenth Museum, the resilient Como neighborhood, and the keepers who saved it all.

Fort Worth's architecture, 1895 to 2002: a pink-granite courthouse, the first skyscraper, the Art Deco skyline, and the modern masterpieces — Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn's Kimbell, and Tadao Ando's Modern — that made a cattle town one of America's great architectural cities.

The Mexican-American story woven through Fort Worth: Tejano roots older than the cattle West, the labor that built Cowtown, the four barrios, Our Lady of Guadalupe, música Tejana, and the long fight for a voice — from the North Side to La Gran Plaza.

Fort Worth's surprising musical legacy: the birthplace of Western swing at Crystal Springs, Ornette Coleman's free-jazz revolution out of I.M. Terrell High, the songwriter Townes Van Zandt, the bluesman Delbert McClinton, and the honky-tonks where it all still plays.