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Destination guide USA

Chicago

Views from the 94th and 103rd floors, great museums by the lake and the story of the skyline.

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Chicago’s skyline in the evening from 360 CHICAGO
360 CHICAGO

In the city

Skyline views and great museums.

Look out from 360 CHICAGO above the Magnificent Mile, or step into a glass box on the 103rd floor of Willis Tower at Skydeck Chicago. Meet SUE the T. rex at the Field Museum, see Seurat and Van Gogh at the Art Institute and learn how the skyline was built at the Chicago Architecture Center. On State Street, the Medieval Torture Museum shows historical punishment devices and their stories.

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Observation deck & views

360 CHICAGO

Views over Lake Michigan and the skyline from an X-braced 1969 tower.
from US$80per adult
Observation deck & views

Skydeck Chicago

Glass boxes on the 103rd floor of Willis Tower, 1,353 feet above the Chicago streets.
from US$80per adult
Museum & natural history

Field Museum

SUE the T. rex, Egyptian mummies and four billion years of life in a 1921 hall by Lake Michigan.
from US$60per adult
Museum & art

Art Institute of Chicago

Seurat, Van Gogh and the Thorne Miniature Rooms behind the bronze lions on Michigan Avenue.
from US$64per adult
Architecture & exhibitions

Chicago Architecture Center

Skyscraper models and a 3D model of the city in a Mies van der Rohe tower on the Chicago River.
from US$30per adult
Museum & history

Medieval Torture Museum Chicago

More than 100 historical punishment devices and their stories, in an 1872 building on State Street.
from US$80per adult
The Empire State Building rising above Midtown Manhattan at dusk

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New York

Observation decks above Manhattan, great museums, Broadway’s story and the zoo and gardens of the Bronx.

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The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum on its pier

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Boston

Replica tea ships, the story of 1773 and a coral reef on Boston’s waterfront.

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The entrance front of The Breakers in Newport

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Newport

A Vanderbilt summer house on the cliffs above the Atlantic.

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Inside the great conservatory at Longwood Gardens

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Brandywine Valley

A French-style estate and great glasshouses in the valleys of Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Read the Brandywine Valley guide
The mansion at Mount Vernon above the Potomac

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Washington, DC

George Washington’s riverside estate, a short drive south of the capital.

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The domed west front of Monticello

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Charlottesville

Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop house in the Virginia Piedmont.

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Live oaks hung with Spanish moss along the Avenue of Oaks at Boone Hall, with a fenced field beyond

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Charleston

A Lowcountry plantation and the history of the people enslaved there, in Mount Pleasant.

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Evening sun on the south front of the Davenport House and its double flight of entrance steps

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Savannah

Historic houses of 1820 and 1849 on Savannah’s Columbia and Lafayette Squares.

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The white-columned portico of Graceland

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Memphis

Graceland, the National Civil Rights Museum, the story of soul and rock ’n’ roll, and a zoo in Overton Park.

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The Ryman stage seen from the balcony, with curved wooden pews below and a red barn backdrop

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Nashville

Country music’s hall of fame, the Mother Church and the Man in Black, in Music City.

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Fish and coral in the Pacific reef gallery at Georgia Aquarium

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Atlanta

Whale sharks at Georgia Aquarium, civil and human rights, and college football, in downtown Atlanta.

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Space Shuttle Atlantis on display at Kennedy Space Center

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Orlando

Rockets on the Space Coast, alligators on the Orange Blossom Trail and wax figures on International Drive.

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The Dalí Museum’s glass bubble and concrete walls behind a lawn lined with palm trees

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Tampa Bay

Salvador Dalí on the St. Petersburg waterfront and rescued sea life near Clearwater Beach.

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The Italian-style villa at Vizcaya

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Miami

An Italian-style villa on Biscayne Bay and a science museum and aquarium on the waterfront.

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The museum’s restored brick warehouse building with its corner tower and WWII sign, seen across Magazine Street

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New Orleans

The national museum of the Second World War and a zoo in Audubon Park.

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The shuttle replica Independence on its carrier aircraft at Space Center Houston

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Houston

NASA’s visitor centre, dinosaurs and a zoo in Hermann Park, and an aquarium downtown.

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The seven-storey red-brick former Texas School Book Depository at the corner of Elm and Houston Streets, under a blue sky

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Dallas

The life, death and legacy of President Kennedy above Dealey Plaza, and views from Reunion Tower.

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The front of ʻIolani Palace in Honolulu

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Honolulu

A royal palace, Hawaiʻi’s state museum, and a battleship and historic hangars at Pearl Harbor.

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A green sea turtle swimming through bright blue water

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Maui

Hawaiian reefs, sea turtles and the Open Ocean at Māʻalaea.

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The aircraft carrier USS Midway on San Diego Bay

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San Diego

An aircraft carrier on the bay, the zoo in Balboa Park, a safari park and LEGOLAND.

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The Huntington’s mansion in San Marino

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Los Angeles

Gardens near Pasadena, a working film studio in Burbank and the Pacific on the harbour at Long Beach.

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The Golden Nugget’s great yellow sign, with GAMBL in white letters, among old signs in the Neon Boneyard at dusk

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Las Vegas

Old neon signs, a 1933 courthouse, wax figures on the Strip and Omega Mart at AREA15.

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Red rock buttes of Papago Park above desert scrub, with the city on the horizon

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Phoenix

Desert wildlife and the Tropics Trail among the red buttes of Papago Park.

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The bay and the city skyline, with the Transamerica Pyramid, seen from beside the Exploratorium

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San Francisco

Science in Golden Gate Park and on the bay, Walt Disney’s story in the Presidio and sharks at PIER 39.

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The Victorian towers and gables of the Winchester Mystery House

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San Jose

Sarah Winchester’s sprawling Victorian mansion in Silicon Valley.

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The rocky shore of Monterey Bay beside the aquarium and Cannery Row

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Monterey

A living kelp forest, jellies and sea otters on Cannery Row.

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The Space Needle with Mount Rainier in the distance

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Seattle

Views from the Space Needle and Columbia Center, and aircraft beside Boeing Field.

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The white-columned portico and stone façade of Graceland, with a white lion statue on each side of the front steps Bookable

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From US$173

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From A$155

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San Diego, USA · Gardens & outdoors

From US$156

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From A$99

A green-and-cream vintage streetcar passing the arched front of Pier 15 on the Embarcadero Bookable

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San Francisco, USA · Art & culture

From US$80

The domed Zoo Center at the Bronx Zoo, with carved elephant heads beside its arched entrance, on a summer day Bookable

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New York, USA · Gardens & outdoors

From US$58

The bluestone gatehouse of Kryal Castle, its name above the arched entrance between two round towers, photographed in 1996 Bookable

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Ballarat, Australia · Palaces & landmarks

From A$88

The Big Pheasant, a giant painted pheasant statue rising above native shrubs at Tynong, under a blue sky Bookable

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Melbourne, Australia · Gardens & outdoors

From A$158

The steel walkway of the Tahune Airwalk curving out over the forest, with the Huon River and wooded hills below Bookable

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Hobart, Australia · Gardens & outdoors

From A$70

A Tasmanian devil sitting on a flat rock in front of fallen logs and a rocky stream Bookable

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Cradle Mountain, Australia · Gardens & outdoors

From A$55

The Dreamworld globe and sign above the park entrance, with wide curved steps in front under a blue sky Bookable

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Gold Coast, Australia · Art & culture

From A$198

The wooden observation tower above the breeding marsh at Gatorland, with still water and green trees under a blue sky Bookable

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Orlando, USA · Gardens & outdoors

From US$75

Coloured tube slides at WhiteWater World winding above yellow shade sails and a pool, with a roller coaster loop behind Bookable

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Gold Coast, Australia · Gardens & outdoors

From A$158

The tall Aussie World sign by the road, with striped entrance tents, a Ferris wheel and the pub building under a blue sky Bookable

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Sunshine Coast, Australia · Art & culture

From A$118

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Memphis, USA · Gardens & outdoors

From US$56

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New Orleans, USA · Gardens & outdoors

From US$75

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Phoenix, USA · Gardens & outdoors

From US$90

The Houston Zoo main entrance, with its large sign above a covered gateway on a sunny day Bookable

Houston Zoo

Houston, USA · Gardens & outdoors

From US$68

The London Eye beside County Hall on the South Bank, seen across the River Thames under a blue sky with clouds Bookable

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London, United Kingdom · Palaces & landmarks

From £78

Two giraffes outside the brick Giraffe House at London Zoo, with its tall arched doorways, on a sunny day Bookable

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London, United Kingdom · Gardens & outdoors

From £71

The Round Tower of Windsor Castle on its mound, a flag flying above it, behind battlemented stone walls under a blue sky Bookable

Windsor Castle

London, United Kingdom · Palaces & landmarks

From £72

The long stone south front of Warwick Castle and its round corner tower, above the River Avon and a wide lawn Bookable

Warwick Castle

Warwick, United Kingdom · Palaces & landmarks

From £78

The White Tower rising above the outer walls of the Tower of London, seen across the Thames under a blue sky Bookable

Tower of London

London, United Kingdom · Palaces & landmarks

From £76

The south front of Blenheim Palace, a long Baroque façade of golden stone with a columned portico and corner towers, above a wide lawn Bookable

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Oxford, United Kingdom · Palaces & landmarks

From £88

The stone circle at Stonehenge on its grassy plain, sarsen uprights and lintels against a pale sky Bookable

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Salisbury, United Kingdom · Palaces & landmarks

From £64

Brightly painted wooden boats on the sand beside a lagoon in the Islands area of Chester Zoo Bookable

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Chester, United Kingdom · Gardens & outdoors

From £77

The west towers and the pinnacled south side of York Minster under a blue sky with white clouds Bookable

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York, United Kingdom · Palaces & landmarks

From £40

Gentoo penguins on round stone nests beside the penguin pool at Edinburgh Zoo, with a footbridge and trees behind on a sunny day Bookable

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Gardens & outdoors

From £59

The angular, silver-clad Titanic Belfast building under a deep blue sky with white clouds Bookable

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Belfast, United Kingdom · Art & culture

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Palm tree and palace walls reflected in the central pool at El Badi Palace Bookable

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Marrakech, Morocco · Palaces & landmarks

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Marrakech, Morocco · Palaces & landmarks

From €25

The Menara Pavilion and its palms reflected in the great basin Bookable

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Marrakech, Morocco · Gardens & outdoors

From €25

A restored arched gate of the Roman camp at Tamuda, with Tétouan beyond Bookable

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