They shuffled through the gloomy, curving entryway to the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, the space lit with eerie, knee-high lights. A guide ushered them into the dark expanse, pincushioned by thin ...

A subterranean reservoir in Houston, Texas, once slated for demolition is being reimagined as an unconventional art space. The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern is a 1920s water reservoir measuring 87,500 ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. “Hellooooooo cistern!” Anne Olson called into the darkness. For ...

HOUSTON — Houston is full of hidden treasures and one of them sits more than 200 feet below Buffalo Bayou Park near downtown. The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, reminiscent of the ancient Roman cisterns ...

In early summer of 2010, nobody thought much about the odd artificial hill where, every year, the city of Houston launched Fourth of July fireworks. Next to Jamail Skate Park, the hill lay inside a ...

The folks behind Buffalo Bayou Park have opened another attraction — and this time it’s subterranean. What used to be an 87,500-square foot drinking water cistern built in 1926 has been brought up to ...

A small group of visitors were getting a sneak peek Friday morning at the cistern that is hidden underground next to the Lee and Joe Jamail Skate Park on Sabine Street. They were visibly impressed by ...

The Buffalo Bayou Cistern in Houston has done it again, this time with a special winter light show that immerses the visitor in an underground dreamscape of light and sound even more exciting than the ...

The Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern in Houston is like walking into the ancient ruin of an empty spaceship that has become a theatre. The unique man-made cavern on the edge of downtown is strangely ...