United States

Skip the Strip mid-afternoon and explore Fremont East's Container Park and neon-lit dive bars on Main Street.

Walk the Ybor City cigar-factory blocks past Centennial Park and out to the Riverwalk by the Tampa Museum of Art.

See Turrell's skyspace at LACMA, walk Grand Avenue to the Broad, then dinner in Thai Town on Hollywood Boulevard.

Wynwood Walls and graffiti-wrapped warehouses for the afternoon, then Little Havana's Calle Ocho for dominos and coffee.

Explore the Roosevelt Row arts district for First Friday galleries then dinner on Grand Avenue's antique row.

Beyond the parks, the Mills 50 district and Audubon Park Garden District are where locals eat and drink.

Browse Powell's City of Books then cross the Burnside Bridge into the Pearl District for galleries and coffee.

Walk the Dallas Arts District from the Nasher Sculpture Center to Klyde Warren Park's food-truck lawn.

Walk the 22 surviving squares of Oglethorpe's 1733 plan — Forsyth Park's fountain to Chippewa Square in two hours.

Ride the Powell-Hyde cable car past Lombard Street and wander the Mission for murals on Balmy Alley.

Spend a morning in Balboa Park's museums then cross to Little Italy's Saturday Mercato for stone fruit and focaccia.

Skip Bourbon Street and walk Frenchmen for brass bands at Spotted Cat then streetcar up St. Charles through the Garden District.

Wander the Menil Collection's free galleries then grab a pour-over next door at Blacksmith on West Alabama.

Walk Rainbow Row and the Battery then up King Street's antique dealers and linen shops to Marion Square.

Wander Temple Square then walk up to the 9th & 9th neighborhood for indie bookstores and coffee at Publik.

Walk Fayetteville Street from the Capitol to the Contemporary Art Museum and around to Moore Square for food trucks.

Catch a show at the Continental Club on South Congress then walk over the Ann Richards Bridge at bat-flight dusk.

Wander NoDa's 36th Street arts murals then hop the light rail down to South End's breweries and Rail Trail.

Cross the Stone Arch Bridge from Mill Ruins Park to the North Loop for Bachelor Farmer brunch and boutiques.

Walk Church Street Marketplace's four pedestrian blocks then along the Waterfront Park bike path to the ECHO Center.

Wander Pike Place Market and the revived waterfront from Olympic Sculpture Park to Pier 62.

Explore the Crossroads Arts District galleries on First Friday then fountains in the Country Club Plaza.

Walk the Eastside BeltLine from Ponce City Market to Krog Street, the old rail corridor reborn as a linear park.

Walk the Freedom Trail from Boston Common through the North End and cross to Bunker Hill in Charlestown.

Honky-tonks on lower Broadway are a circus, but the better hang is 3rd & Lindsley or Bluebird Cafe for songwriter rounds.

Ride the Duquesne Incline up to Mount Washington at dusk for the best city-three-rivers view in America.

Ride the QLine up Woodward to the Eastern Market Saturday shed and the Heidelberg Project polka-dot houses.

Tour Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House on Jewett Parkway then walk the Richardson Olmsted Campus grounds at golden hour.

Browse River Arts District warehouses turned studios then downtown for a flight at Wicked Weed or Burial Beer.

Walk the Cultural Trail from Mass Ave to Fountain Square, eight miles of public-art-lined bike-walk loop.

Ride the tram up Saarinen's Gateway Arch then wander the restored Old Courthouse where the Dred Scott case was argued.

Walk the High Line from Gansevoort to Hudson Yards then drop into Chelsea Market for lunch and bookshops.

Browse the RiNo murals, tour the Denver Art Museum's Hamilton Building, then a rooftop beer at Avanti in LoHi.

Walk from the Lincoln Memorial past the Reflecting Pool to the Washington Monument in the cherry-blossom shoulder season.

Explore Over-the-Rhine's Findlay Market, the oldest continuously operating public market in Ohio, then up to Eden Park.

Circle the Capitol during Saturday's Dane County Farmers' Market, the largest producer-only market in the US.

Take the CAF river architecture cruise then walk the Riverwalk to Cloud Gate and up Michigan Avenue.

Walk Elfreth's Alley, the oldest residential street in America, then cross to Reading Terminal Market for lunch.

Stroll the RiverWalk past the Bronze Fonz then tour the Pabst Mansion on Grand Avenue for Gilded Age Milwaukee.

Wander the South Wedge and the Public Market on Saturday — one of the country's great weekly farmers' markets.