It is only 45 miles down the Gulf Freeway from the glittery metropolis that is the new Houston to old Galveston, but it might as well be on another planet. The causeway that leads across Galveston Bay to the long narrow barrier island is like a time machine transporting the visitor into a 19th-century world of light and airy Victorian, Gothic and Greek Revival buildings and homes. Galveston Island has more surviving Victorian houses than any other old houses and historic architecture especially from the Victorian era.

Texas – The Old Exists in Galveston