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The Texas Institute of Cultures invites you to join the annual Asian Festival. Check out the cooking demonstrations, and taste the authentic cuisine from Japan, Korea, Laos, Thailand, the Philippines, and more. Have your palms read and shop the wide assortment of crafts and gifts.

The Alamo is a global cultural icon, a Spanish mission of worldwide importance, and 300 years of Texas history brought to life. Choose the one-hour Battlefield Tour, where you’ll be able to walk in the footsteps of heroes. Enjoy hands-on demonstrations of daily life in the 1830s. Get up close to the stunning artifacts and learn about their history. Walk among the legends in the Calvary Courtyard, where six beautifully sculpted statues convey humanity and heroism. See the 16 Pounder Cannon that is newly conserved and mounted proudly on a replica of the 1830s gun carriage. Stroll through the lush gardens and cool off in the shade of the oak trees during your visit. Discover the Jewel of Texas Heritage that has captured the world’s attention for generations.

Join in on the mayhem, murder, and ghost stories in an exciting ghost hunting experience at Alamo City Ghost Tours, the top-voted ghost tour in America by USA Today and Tripadvisor. As the oldest ghost tour, you and a group of brave souls can seek out the age-old question, do ghosts exist? How? Starting with the ghostly tour guide, they will lead you through haunted buildings, hospitals, old battlefields, and disturbed graveyards as they tell you the storied wicked past at each site. Are you experiencing strange sensations or hearing unexplainable sounds? Here is your chance to stir up the restless spirit by using the EMF detectors that show magnetic fields, the digital thermometers for cold spots, the dowsing rods to locate energy, and the spirit box to communicate with ghostly beings.