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America's cities are vibrant, exciting places to visit! Plan your holiday here and you'll find that U.S. cities offer rich cultural experiences, world-class museums, amazing regional food specialties and much more. Choose a city from our Editor's Picks or scroll down to view all cities alphabetically. |
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U.S. City Destinations |
| Boston |
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Boston is one of the world's great walking cities, offering visitors hundreds of shops, hotels, museums, restaurants, live performances and sports attractions. Logan International Airport is very close to downtown, the public transit is excellent and affordable and the city is filled with great parks on the harbour, the river and throughout its historic neighborhoods and famous Boston attractions. From Harvard University to MIT, Boston is home to more colleges than anywhere else in the world and visitors will enjoy the atmosphere created by a quarter-million college students. Vibrant year-round, Boston offers festivals for every season. Daytrips to Cape Cod, Cape Ann, Concord, or anywhere in New England are easy to arrange for a Boston holiday. There is direct nonstop air service to Boston from 31 international airports and 71 USA airports and high speed rail service several times daily to New York City, Washington DC & Philadelphia. National Parks include the Boston Harbor Islands, the Freedom Trail & Cape Cod National Seashore. |
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| Houston |
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Houston Must-Sees |
- TeHouston, the visitor center for NASA’s Johnson Space Center. A tram tour offers a behind-the-scenes look
- at tst your skill at landing a space shuttle or retrieving a satellite (using computer simulators) at Space
- Center he Mission Control Center.
- Museum-hopping is easy – even in cowboy boots – in Houston’s Museum District, where you can stroll among
- 17 museums and the Houston Zoo. Don’t miss the Museum of Fine Arts, whose holdings include the Glassell
- Collection of African Gold, the finest of its kind in the world.
- Visiting with children? Plan a jaunt to the Downtown Houston Aquarium. Attractions include sharks, white
- tigers, and an aquatic Ferris wheel.
- What’s the most-photographed subject in Houston? It’s theWaterwall, a 64-foot, U-shaped fountain that
- pumps 78,500 gallons of recycled water every three hours and 20 minutes.
- Houston is barbecue country. Try the delicious – and messy – slow-cooked brisket at Goode Co. Texas Bar-
- B-Q, a local favorite.
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| Atlanta Must See |
- Site of the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 21-acre Centennial Olympic Park features the interactive Fountain
- of Rings, sculpture and an amphitheater. Stop by for concerts in the summer.
- Don't miss the world's largest aquarium, the Georgia Aquarium. With more than eight million gallons of
- water, the aquarium is home to beluga whales, sharks, alligators, piranhas and many more.
- Taste more than 60 beverages from around the globe at the World of Coca-Cola®, and tour interactive
- exhibits about the world's best-known brand.
- Take the Inside CNN Studio Tour, and go behind the scenes at CNN's global headquarters. Ascend the
- world's largest freestanding escalator to see interactive videos of CNN's top stories and a replica of
- the control room.
- Immerse yourself in the life of the great civil-rights leader at the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic
- Site. See King's boyhood home, his church, an educational visitors' center and his gravesite.
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| Los Angeles |
- Entertainment industry figures haven't arrived until they receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Spend a day marveling at this 18-block memorial along Hollywood Boulevard from LaBrea to Vine.
- The Grove is an open-air shopping mall in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, and it's also a prime spot
- for celebrity sightings.
- The Annenberg Community Beach House at Santa Monica State Beach is a public pool with Hollywood history;
- William Randolph Hearst had the place built for his mistress, actress Marion Davies, in the 1920s.
- Renovations were completed in 2009.
- A visit to the Huntington Library Botanical Gardens near Pasadena isn't complete without a snack at the Rose
- Garden Tea Room, which serves a local spin on the traditional English treat.
- Known for its architecture and the art inside, the Getty Center, in Brentwood, features paintings from
- well-known artists including Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin.
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| Washington County |
- In Hillsboro, the 725-acre Jackson Bottom Wetlands Preserve features year-round wildlife-watching from
- 4.5 miles of trails. Soak up the breathtaking view of a 1,500-pound bald eagle nest.
- At Family Fun Center and Bullwinkle's Restaurant, play miniature golf and laser tag, ride go karts and
- w bumper boats, climb a 28-foot rock wall or try your hand at more than 150 arcade games.
- Hillsboro Farmers' Market has been a tradition for nearly three decades, with seasonal, open-air shopping
- setups full of local produce and arts and crafts.
- Oak Knoll Winery offers premium varieties of pinot noir, pinot gris and chardonnay. Its annual Toast
- to the Tunes summer concert series is a popular all-ages event.
- Tour 60 miles of vineyards, nurseries, orchards, U-pick farms and pioneer sites on the Vineyard and Valley
- Scenic Tour Route. Experience the natural beauty of the Pacific Coast mountain range, the Tualatin River and
- the wetlands.
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| Cincinnati |
- Tour America's second-oldest zoo, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, to see an impressive assortment
- of animals and plants. The zoo's 1875 Reptile House is the country's oldest existing zoo building.
- Savor thousands of works of art, from modern to ancient, at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The museum
- collection spans some 60,000 works - one of the largest in the Midwestern U.S.
- In a single stop at the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal you'll discover the city's history museum,
- Duke Energy Children's Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, and The Robert D. Lindner Family
- Omnimax® Theater.
- Travel back to the birth of baseball at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame & Museum. The Reds are America's
- oldest baseball team.
- Learn about slavery and the Underground Railroad at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
- The museum pays tribute to a sad period in America's past and works to promote freedom.
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