Philadelphia is one of the best-value cities in the country. It has more history per square block than almost anywhere in America, and an amazing amount of it is free. You can spend a full weekend here seeing world-famous sights and pay for nothing but cheesesteaks and coffee. Here are six free things worth your
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Arizona is built for a road trip. In one loop you get red rock country, the Grand Canyon, the buttes of Monument Valley, slot canyons and a desert full of giant cacti. The roads are good, the distances are manageable and the scenery changes almost every hour. This route starts and ends in Phoenix and
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St. Augustine is the oldest continuously settled European city in the United States. The Spanish founded it in 1565, decades before Jamestown, and you can feel it. The old town is a tangle of narrow streets, stone walls, balconies and courtyards that looks more like Spain than Florida. It’s small, walkable and easy to cover
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Most people visit Boston in the fall. Fair enough, it’s lovely. But winter is when the city quietly gets better. The crowds vanish, hotel prices drop by a third or more, and the old brick streets look like a Christmas card after a snowfall. It’s cold, I won’t pretend otherwise. January highs sit around freezing
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Savannah might be the most romantic city in America. It’s slow, it’s beautiful, and it feels a little like stepping back in time. The historic center is a grid of 22 leafy squares, each one surrounded by old mansions and shaded by huge live oaks dripping with Spanish moss. It’s walkable, it’s full of good
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Miami is one of those places people think they know before they get there. Beaches, Art Deco, nightclubs, done. Then they land and find a huge, spread-out, very Latin American city with its own rules, its own weather moods and a lot more going on than South Beach. Here are nine things worth knowing before
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Highway 1 along the California coast is the road trip most Americans have on their list, and it’s earned its reputation. The road clings to cliffs above the Pacific, passes through redwoods and little beach towns, and every bend seems to reveal a view better than the last. This route runs south from San Francisco
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Nashville is a fun city by day, but it’s really a night town. That’s when the music starts, and in Nashville the music never really stops. On any given night there are dozens of live shows across the city, from huge stages to tiny bars where the next big country star is playing to twelve
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Santa Fe doesn’t look like anywhere else in the US. The whole town is low, brown adobe with turquoise doors, the sky is a huge, deep blue, and the air smells of pinon smoke and roasting chile. It’s the oldest state capital in the country, founded in 1610, and it’s small enough that two days
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San Diego is the easiest big city in California. The weather is good nearly every day of the year, the beaches are close, and it’s much more laid-back than LA. Three days is the sweet spot: enough to see the big stuff without rushing, and still have time to sit on a beach. This plan
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