Map reveals most popular places in Houston to take photos

Whether you are cheering on the Houston Texans (The 2014 season can't come soon enough) or wearing Wranglers and cowboy boots at RodeoHouston, Reliant Stadium is one of the most photographed places in the city. less Whether you are cheering on the Houston Texans (The 2014 season can't come soon enough) or wearing Wranglers and cowboy boots at RodeoHouston, Reliant Stadium is one of the most photographed places in the ... more Photo: Smiley N. Pool, Houston Chronicle Photo: Smiley N. Pool, Houston Chronicle Image 1 of / 18 Caption Close Map reveals most popular places in Houston to take photos 1 / 18 Back to Gallery

A mapping tool that shows the most popular places in the world to take photos ranks Houston at number 732 internationally and reveals some of the more scenic parts of the city.

The interactive heatmaps on Sightsmap are a glorious timesuck. It's also a good tool to use before you make travel plans so you can seek out landmarks that you shouldn't miss out on. For instance, in New York City there is this thing called the Empire State Building that everybody takes pictures of.

The site takes in information from Wikipedia, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, and Google analytics to pinpoint the hottest spots in a city where people visit and take photos.

Hotspots in the Houston and Galveston area aren't too surprising on the whole but there are some standouts on the map.

If you haven't been to any of these places, maybe you can resolve to do so in the new year, like the McDonald's next to Space Center Houston, or the Texas City Dike, two locations down south that get lots of visitors, at least according to Sightsmap.

The locations marked with a yellow tab are the most popular.

Among some of the most-snapped places in Houston you'll find the usual suspects, like Reliant Stadium, the Astrodome next door, Rice Stadium, The Houston Museum Of Natural Science, the Texas Medical Center, Minute Maid Park, Downtown Aquarium, Bush Intercontinental Airport, and The Strand district in Galveston. Farther away, you'll see Surfside Beach and the Stephen F. Austin statue just south of Angleton.

The buildings around 1400 Smith in downtown are widely popular too. The former Enron digs are now occupied by Chevron.

According to the heatmap, plenty of us seem to be taking pictures of Astroworld, or at least the plot of urban pasture that used to be Astroworld.