The United States of America (USA) is the third largest country by geographic size on Earth. It is also our home. The second most visited country in the world, it's a place we have traveled extensively, but there's always more to see.
We love exploring things to do in big cities and smaller towns and sampling the best of the wine regions and craft distilleries that are booming across the country. Delving into US history is also a favorite for us, made that much easier by the fact that we live in Philadelphia, the place where the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence were signed.
While we have traveled all over the US (Lance has been to every state once and the lower 48 twice), there are some destinations we return to over and over. We write frequently about:
Some of our favorite and most popular articles about things to do in the USA are about cities and states we visit regularly. They include:
Philadelphia is often overlooked in favor of our popular neighbors just a little bit north in New York City and a little bit south in Washington, D.C.. But people who skip over us here in the City of Brotherly Love are missing out!
Amid the eye-catching Texas Hill Country landscape is the tiny town of Wimberley.
Fredericksburg, Texas, is a small town with a booming restaurant scene. With great Texas wine, German specialties, and plenty of Tex-Mex and burgers thrown in, …
There are so many awesome places to see in Texas that don’t make it on most tourists’ radars—the small towns mostly known about and loved only by Texans or those with a real affinity for the Lone Star State. Here’s our perfect Central Texas road trip full of places we love.
Nashville, Tennessee, is all about fun. Live music, street art, rooftop bars, and some of the best food anywhere combine to make a weekend in Nashville one of the best getaways you can take.
Nashville has a lot of great hotels, but these are the 15 best places to stay in downtown.
The beautiful city of Annapolis is often overlooked in favor of its larger neighbors like Baltimore or Washington, DC. But Annapolis is a waterfront retreat, a college town, and a picture-perfect capital city full of fun things to do.
Christmas is a special time to visit Nashville. The city brings out its finest decorations, some of its best performances, and lots and lots of Christmas lights.
Visiting the Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
Dallas is about BBQ and cowboys—both the football kind and the calf-roping kind—but it’s so much more than that, too.