18 fun things to do in Eastern USA

Don’t be fooled by all the corn. Behind it lurks surfing beaches and Tibetan temples, car-free islands and the green-draped night-lights of the aurora borealis. And then, of course, there’s the bright lights of Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and rockin’ Detroit.

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Eastern USA travel guide

18 fun things to do in Eastern USA

- travel around the world without ever leaving the kaleidoscope of neighborhoods and cultures that is New York City.

- enjoy the kitsch and calm of the Jersey Shore.

- absorb the story of the birth of the nation in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historic Park.

- follow in the footsteps of Colonial rabble-rousers along Boston’s Freedom Trail

- romp across the dunes at Cape Cod National Seashore

- wander the cobbled streets and windswept beaches of Nantucket

- visit Washington’s Smithsonian Institution museums, then watch the sun set over Lincoln Memorial

- trace America’s roots at the living-history museum of Colonial Williamsburg

- explore the region’s nautical past with a pub crawl through Baltimore’s cobblestoned port-town neighborhood of Fell’s Point

- don a costume and join the crowds during Mardi Gras in New Orleans

- hike and camp in the magnificent Great Smoky Mountains National Park

- stomp your boots in honky-tonks along Lower Broadway in Nashville

- join the sunset bacchanal in Key West’s Mallory Square

- paddle among alligators and sawgrass in The Everglades

- be swept up in nostalgia and thrill rides at Walt Disney World

- absorb the skyscrapers, museums, festivals and foodie bounty of Chicago

- lounge on the beach or head out surfing on Lake Michigan’s western shore

- slow down for clip-clopping horses and buggies in Ohio’s Amish Country

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