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Key West sits 90 miles north of Cuba and 160 miles southwest of Miami, at the end of a 113-mile chain of islands connected to the Florida mainland by the Overseas Highway one of the great American drives, running across 42 bridges over water so clear and turquoise that the bridges feel suspended between sky […]

Puerto Rico is the only US territory that is entirely tropical. The only tropical rainforest in the US National Forest System is here, in El Yunque, 40 miles east of San Juan. The bioluminescent bay on Vieques Island is the brightest in the world, holding a Guinness World Record for luminosity. The fortifications of Old

Salt Lake City is the American city that most consistently surprises visitors who arrive with modest expectations. They expect a conservative, religiously homogeneous city in the desert and find something considerably more interesting: a genuinely cosmopolitan mountain city of 200,000 people ringed by one of the finest ski resort concentrations in the world, possessing a

Seattle is the American city that most consistently exceeds expectations. I arrived for the first time in October, which most visitors are warned against, and found a city of extraordinary atmosphere: the light at that time of year comes sideways through low cloud and turns the water of Elliott Bay the color of pewter, the

It was 7 AM on an October morning and I was standing on the Michigan Avenue bridge looking west down the Chicago River. The canyon of buildings on both sides, glass and stone and steel rising 30 and 40 and 50 stories above the water, was catching the first light from the east. The Wrigley