Things To Do

Portland, Maine has a population of 68,000 people. It has more restaurants per capita than any other city in the United States. Not more restaurants per capita than comparable small cities – more than any city, anywhere in the country, including New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. The James Beard Foundation has nominated Portland

Palm Springs has a population of around 48,000 people and more mid-century modern architecture per square mile than anywhere else on earth. The city has the highest concentration of preserved 1950s and 1960s residential design in the United States – more than 2,500 documented structures built between 1940 and 1969. Architects like Richard Neutra, Albert

Charleston has 1,400 buildings constructed before 1840 still standing and in active use within the 4.2 miles of the city peninsula. No comparable collection of 18th and early 19th-century American domestic architecture exists anywhere else in the United States outside of New Orleans. Most visitors arrive knowing Charleston has good food and beautiful houses. They

Savannah was Sherman’s Christmas gift. When Union General William Tecumseh Sherman completed his March to the Sea through Georgia in December 1864, he had burned Atlanta, torched Columbia, and destroyed most of what stood in his path across the South. When he reached Savannah, he sent President Lincoln a telegram: “I beg to present you

Tokyo is the world’s largest city and, counterintuitively, one of the easiest large cities to navigate as a visitor from any country. The metropolitan area of 37 million people runs on a transit system so precisely timed that a one-minute delay makes the news. The streets are clean without visible surveillance. The food is better