Picturesque and well-to-do, Kentucky’s most richly adorned town still rarely makes it onto the mainstream traveler’s itinerary through the Bluegrass State. Why is something of a mystery. There’s plenty to do and see here, whether it’s wondering at the elegant Victorian and Greek Revival homes of plantation owners from centuries gone by, tasting hearty country …
A post-industrial, Rust Belt town that has only the fourth highest population in Ohio and sits sprawled out over old docklands and riversides on the very edge of the Great Lakes, it’s perhaps hardly surprising that Toledo is so often overlooked by travelers making their way through the Midwest. But those who do opt to …
Saint Paul – The historic and uber-welcoming Capitol of Minnesota – forms one half of the sprawling Twin Cities. With a population just shy of 300,000 and all the urban areas of colossal Minneapolis just on the doorstep, the city strikes a fine balance between the laid-back and the metropolitan. Its southern fringes are lined …
Texas’ ninth most populous city can be found nestled between the rolling grasslands and prairies and the booming megacity of Dallas, right on the northern fringes of the Lone Star State. Home to more than 250,000 people, the city is far from small, and continues to attract settlers who prefer something of a slower pace …
Joined at the hip by subways and bridges, light rail and roads to the massive metro area of New York City across the Hudson to the west, Newark might look small next to its near neighbour but it’s still the largest city in the entire of the Garden State. That means travelers who make their …
Greensboro is a town steeped in history. Once the contact point of the British and Revolutionary armies during the American push for independence in the late 18th century, the city’s outer districts are still marked with battlefields and monuments to the fallen. When the Civil War erupted, the area was divided, half Dixie half Unionist, …
Straddling the divide between the Deep South and the Midwest as it sprawls out across the banks of the Ohio River (one of the major tributaries to the Mississippi River), Cincinnati oozes with a curious mix of American industrialism, BBQ heritage, baseball fanaticism, riparian come railroad character and a deep sense of its own history. …
A town of rolling surf and seaside cocktail shacks that represents the cultural kingpin of Hawaii as a whole, this Polynesian-flavored American state capital rarely fails to impress. The likes of Elvis and Doris Duke rested here, following the traditions of the Hawaiian kings and queens themselves. And what a place it is to rest! The …
The so-called City of Bridges might only be home to 300,000 folks, but boy does it pack a punch. Famed for its steel industries, largely long since died with the rest of the embers of the Midwest’s industrial boom, the metro area here is a place of red-brick facades, countless depots and arched bridges, utilitarianism …
Occupying the western banks of the Mississippi River, the great Gateway to the West is a place of energy, culture, deep history and cutting-edge modern charm. Once an outpost of the French Republic, the town quickly boomed thanks to its tactical position as a port on the river way between Missouri and Illinois. Steamers drifted …