New York

New York is America's largest city. Many people call it the heart of America. Its skyline is known everywhere in the world.

Broadway and Times Square have been seen by more visitors to America than any other place in the country.

New York's Broadway is the theater capital of the nation. Its dramas, comedies, musicals, and reviews are seen all over the world. Radio City Music Hall, with its famous shows and chorus line, is one of the city's most popular attractions.

Millions of people are fascinated every night by Manhattan's display of flashing neon signs. The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the Met Life Building are among the city's best-known landmarks.

Everywhere you look you will see exciting cityscapes and architectural panoramas.

New York is a city of neighborhoods. You must visit Soho, the city's current art scene center. Its bars, restaurants, and galleries are among the favorite meeting places for the art world's elite.

Chinatown will be a rewarding stop on your visit. Its exotic markets, its unusual shops, its beautiful art, and its wonderful restaurants make it difficult to leave.

And be sure to visit Little Italy, the heart of New York's thriving Italian community.

Greenwich Village was once the center of New York's Bohemian life. Today it is alive with people playing, performing, and just enjoying life.

Manhattan, the heart of New York, is a never-ending circus. Visit Wall Street and the diamond district. Spend hours window shopping at its thousands of stores and shops. You will find branches of the world's finest stores in the streets of Manhattan.

New York is a shopper's paradise. But New York is much more than shopping. It is a city of landmarks: Rockefeller Center with its beautiful Art Decco architecture; Grand Central Terminal; The New York Stock Exchange.

In New York you will find some of the world's greatest museums and cultural centers: The Julliard School of Music; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Guggenheim Museum, built by Frank Lloyd Wright.

New York is also one of the world's great seaports. You can spend a very exciting day walking the New York waterfront. Take a ride on a boat and see the world's most famous skyline from the water. Take a ferry ride to Staten Island.

Take photographs of the city's many bridges, especially the Brooklyn Bridge. Visit Central Park and watch street performers, people playing, visiting, and having a good time. And don't forget to visit New York's famous zoo.

Be sure to relax in the city's many urban parks. Everywhere you walk in Manhattan you will see beautiful sculpture by world-famous artists; fountains; monuments; churches and cathedrals.

And be sure to visit the United Nations Building and see the many diplomats and interesting displays.

And finally, take time to visit the Statue of Liberty. This gift from the people of France has become America's most famous symbol.

San Francisco

San Francisco is known as America's most loved city. It is located on the San Francisco Bay and nestles among the rolling hills of Northern California.

The mornings are often foggy and the afternoons bright, cool, and sunny. The dramatic Golden Gate Bridge is one of America's most famous landmarks.

San Francisco has a breathtaking beauty. There are beautiful vistas to be seen from its high hills. There is the beautiful rocky coast. There are quaint harbors, waterfronts, and docks. There are majestic sailboats to be seen everywhere.

Parks, fountains, gardens, and old buildings make each excursion a pleasure. Ponds, lakes, zoos and aquariums are easily found.

You will want to visit the Haight-Ashbury district. In the 1960s this area was the center of America's Hippy movement.

America's most famous Chinatown is in San Francisco. It is a monument to the contributions the Chinese immigrants of the past and their descendents of today have made to our country. Your eye will be captivated everywhere you look.

Be sure to take day trips to Monterrey, Santa Cruz, and Big Sur to appreciate the wonders of Northern California. You will be charmed by the beautiful Spanish architecture, a reflection of California's strong Hispanic heritage.

Relax and go surfing, sailing, and swimming. Then eat at some of the world's best seafood restaurants in San Francisco. And if you want to shop, there are few places where you will find a greater variety than here.

You must ride on San Francisco's great attraction, the cable cars. And drive its hilly, winding streets. You will be thrilled with the city's magnificent Victorian houses, its museums, its buildings, its art treasures, and its striking architecture.

Chicago

What makes a city great?

Probably all the things that you can do and see and experience over and above just living.

The extras...the surprises...the magic...all those different immigrants from all those different countries with their countless cultural riches have made us a great city.

If you're a fan of Art, Architecture, or just walking and looking, Chicago is a movable feast. We invented the skyscraper here....most of the innovations of modern architecture...the iron skeleton...horizontally elongated windows...and people in glass houses.

We also perfected the revolt against modern architecture. And when we're past post-modern, we'll be inventing the future here, too.

It's getting dark, and it's time to have some fun, Chicago style. When the light goes down, the city lights up. With carriage rides and elegant restaurants, small cafes, ethnic food from just about everywhere.

Jazz...blues...rock and roll... billiards... movies... theater... Dancing all night, and even all day. And day and night, the Bears, the Bulls, the Blackhawks, the Whitesocks, and the Cubs.