America has become well known for it’s abundance of botanical gardens. There’s hundreds of options to choose from, meaning that it’s quite likely that there’s one near you. While they pretty much all have some of the same features–such as a vegetable garden, a conservatory or two, possibly a Japanese garden, and so on and […]
Read moreThe second most-visited tourist attraction in America and the most-visited urban park in America can be found in the Big Apple’s core, Central Park, which receives over 40 million annual visitors. These 843 acres take up 6 percent of Manhattan’s total acreage, the size of roughly 16 billion New York apartments. It opened in 1857 and has become famous for being a spacious green escape from all of the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, offering lawns, paths, gardens, a family-friendly zoo and picturesque lakes, which were designed for a nice afternoon stroll, a bike ride, skating, rowing a boat and taking a ride in a horse-drawn carriage. Consider digging a little deeper into the park’s history by taking a free guided tour from Central Park Conservancy Guided Tours.
Read moreThe most-visited tourist attraction in the world receives over 40 million annual visitors each year, with approximately 300,000 visitors each day. From star-studded Broadway shows to world famous stores and restaurants, “The Crossroads of the World” is the hottest place in town. Be sure to check out these live cameras from Times Square. As with the 20 Things You […]
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This 50-foot statue of Lady Liberty’s Inner M is located at the M&M’s World in NYC. The largest “realistic” US replica of The Statue of Liberty is the 36-foot-tall one in Liberty Park in Birmingham, Alabama, at 1/5 the size of the original. Even taller are the 39 and 37 ft 9 in. replicas in Paris. Hundreds more can […]
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Emily Wolman is the Editor-at-Large for Lonely Planet. She has been featured on Fox News, CBS & The Weather Channel among other prominent news outlets. Lonely Planet is the largest travel guide book publisher in the world with nearly 400 staff members, over 100 million published books…
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The US of A is home to a wide variety of cities, yet many cities cost a lot more to visit than others, potentially doubling or tripling the cost of your vacation when you may have been just as happy in another destination! Being frugal doesn’t mean you’re a cheapskate, it simply means that you will be able to travel longer and more often…
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