Travel guides and tips

What is a trip to Los Angeles without a visit to the beach or a LA tour? And the most famous beach in LA is undoubtedly Venice Beach.…

• LA
• venice beach

The real magic of Los Angeles is that it’s always full of surprises. While the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood continues to delight visitors,…

Paris is a place for love, and it’s certainly a place for chocolate lovers. With hundreds of chocolate shops, factories, bakeries, pastry shops, and Michelin-star chefs creating mouthwatering…

Want to commemorate your trip to Paris with a souvenir that holds a bit more beauty and meaning than a beret with an Eiffel Tower on it? Paris…

If you only have a single day in Fort Worth, Texas, I know exactly where you should go. Head on over to the Fort Worth Stockyards. This isn’t…

• Dallas
• history
• Museums

The Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark District in Dallas might be most associated with the JFK assassination, but there’s a lot more history here than what happened in…

There is something so completely magical about Christmas in Chicago that I can hardly contain my glee each year as Halloween passes and November ticks over the calendar.…

As a guide, when people are visiting San Francisco, I insist they carve out a whole day if possible to visit Golden Gate Park. Golden Gate Park is…

Times Square is often called the “crossroads of the world,” and with good reason. At 300,000 visitors every day (and around a million on New Year’s Eve), it’s…

Trinity Church is one of New York’s oldest and most historical buildings. Having been built before even the Revolutionary War, the land has been visited by countless individuals…

Harlem has seen it all. Originally occupied by nomadic tribes of Native Americans, Harlem was transformed into a farming settlement when the Dutch colonized Manhattan in the 1600s.…

Ask a local what their favorite museum in the city is, and they probably won’t say the Louvre. Don’t be surprised if instead they confess it’s the Orsay…