USA city guides
Twelve cities, twelve personalities: skyscrapers and subways, neon and jazz, cable cars and honky-tonks. Each guide tells you how many days to give it, which neighborhood to sleep in and what to book ahead.
New York
Eight million people, five boroughs, one subway that never sleeps.
NY
Las Vegas
Neon in the Mojave, and the best base camp for the Southwest parks.
NV
San Francisco
Forty-nine hills, one orange bridge and fog with a name.
CA
New Orleans
Brass bands, balconies and beignets on the bend of the Mississippi.
LA
Los Angeles
Palm trees, freeways and a sunset that ends at the Pacific.
CA
Chicago
The skyline that invented the skyscraper, on a lake that looks like a sea.
IL
Miami
Art Deco pastels, Cuban coffee and a turquoise Atlantic.
FL
Washington
Marble monuments, free museums and cherry blossoms on the Potomac.
DC
Boston
Red brick, revolution and the best lobster roll of your life.
MA
Seattle
Coffee, ferries and a volcano floating over the skyline.
WA
Nashville
Honky-tonks, hot chicken and a song on every street corner.
TN
San Diego
Seventy degrees, every day, with sea lions for neighbors.
CAWhere they are
The East Coast cities are linked by fast trains; the western ones are better joined by plane or as stops on a road trip. New York to Los Angeles is a 5-hour flight — or 2,800 miles of driving.