Travel guides and tips

Looking for the best places to eat near the Vatican? We’re here to help.  While Vatican City isn’t that large — it easily fits in a two-mile border…

As a tour guide, I will be the first to admit that there’s a lot of stereotypes about guided tours that are true. Good and bad. They definitely…

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.…

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…

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…

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.…