Best Highlights Destinations in North America

49 city guides · 3-day highlights itineraries

3-day city guides covering the essential highlights every visitor should experience.

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Acapulco

La Quebrada cliff divers at night, Fort San Diego, Pie de la Cuesta sunset and ceviche…

North America
🇬🇹 Guatemala

Antigua

The UNESCO Baroque colonial capital (1543–1776, best-preserved in the Americas), three volcanoes (Fu…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Atlanta

Birthplace of MLK and Coca-Cola — the American South's most dynamic city…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Austin

"Keep Austin Weird": the Franklin Barbecue brisket queue, 1.5 million bats at sunset, the Barton Spr…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Boston

The Cradle of Liberty: the Freedom Trail through 16 Revolutionary sites, Harvard (founded 1636), the…

North America
🇨🇦 Canada

Calgary

The Calgary Stampede (world's largest outdoor rodeo, 1.2 million visitors in July), Banff National P…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Cancun

Mexican Caribbean base camp — Chichén Itzá, cenote swimming, Tulum ruins, and Isla Mujeres…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Charlotte

The Queen City: the most important financial center in the American South (Bank of America HQ), the …

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Chicago

The city that invented the skyscraper, deep dish pizza and house music: the Architecture Boat Tour, …

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Dallas

Where the American South meets the American West: the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza (the JFK as…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Denver

The Mile High City: exactly 1,609m above sea level (brass marker on the 13th step of the State Capit…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Detroit

The most dramatic urban comeback in America: the Motown Museum (Studio A at Hitsville U.S.A. — where…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Guadalajara

Mexico's cultural heartland — mariachi birthplace, tequila origin, and the Americas' best murals…

North America
🇨🇺 Cuba

Havana

Cuba's 1950s time capsule — colonial squares, Hemingway's bars, vintage cars, and the Malecón at sun…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Honolulu

Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, Hawaiian plate lunch, and North Shore surf culture…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Houston

NASA Mission Control, the world's best private art museum, and where fajitas were invented…

North America
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

La Romana

Dominican Republic's sugar capital — Altos de Chavón Italian village, Isla Catalina snorkelling, and…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Las Vegas

The desert entertainment capital — Strip casinos, Neon Museum history, Red Rock Canyon, and Hoover D…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Los Angeles

The Getty Center (free, $1.3 billion building), the Warner Bros. backlot, tacos from an East LA truc…

North America
🇳🇮 Nicaragua

Managua

Revolutionary Capital & Volcano Gateway…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Mexico City

Aztec pyramids, Frida Kahlo's Blue House, tacos al pastor for MXN 25 and the finest museum in Latin …

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Miami

Art Deco, Latin Soul & Subtropical Nature…

North America
🇯🇲 Jamaica

Montego Bay

Jamaica's Jerk Capital & Caribbean Riviera…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Monterrey

Mexico's Industrial Capital & Sierra Gateway…

North America
🇨🇦 Canada

Montreal

Bilingual Cultural Capital of Canada…

North America
🇧🇸 Bahamas

Nassau

Pirate Capital & Pink Sand Paradise…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

New Orleans

Jazz Birthplace, Gumbo & Mississippi Soul…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

New York

The Met, the Brooklyn Bridge at dawn, the Statue of Liberty and a $1 pizza slice — the world's most …

North America
🇨🇦 Canada

Ottawa

Gothic Parliament, World's Longest Ice Rink & Museum Capital…

North America
🇵🇦 Panama

Panama City

Where Atlantic Meets Pacific: The Canal, Casco Viejo & San Blas…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Phoenix

Desert Megacity: Saguaro Forest, Red Rock Vortexes & Frank Lloyd Wright…

North America
🇭🇹 Haiti

Port-au-Prince

First Black Republic: Iron Market, Citadelle Fortress & Vodou…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Portland

Weird & Wonderful: Powell's Books, Gorge Waterfalls & Beervana…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Puebla

Colonial Mexico: Mole Poblano, World's Largest Pyramid & Cinco de Mayo…

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Puerto Vallarta

Pacific Mexico: Humpback Whales, Jungle Canopy & Zona Romántica…

North America
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

Punta Cana

Dominican Caribbean: Saona Starfish Sandbar, Cenote & All-Inclusive Sun…

North America
🇨🇦 Canada

Quebec City

North America's Only Walled City: Château Frontenac, Plains of Abraham & Maple Taffy…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

San Diego

Perfect Climate, World's Best Zoo, La Jolla Sea Lions & The Craft Beer Capital of America…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

San Francisco

The Golden Gate, Alcatraz, Cable Cars & The City Where American Counterculture Was Born…

North America
🇨🇷 Costa Rica

San Jose

Costa Rica's Gateway: Active Volcanoes, Hot Springs, Rainforest & The Most Biodiverse Country on Ear…

North America
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico

San Juan

The Oldest US City: Spanish Fortresses, Blue Cobblestones, Bioluminescent Bay & Piña Colada Birthpla…

North America
🇨🇺 Cuba

Santiago de Cuba

Cuba's Heroic City: Revolution Birthplace, Son Music Capital & Fidel's Tomb in the Pantheon of Heroe…

North America
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic

Santo Domingo

The Americas' Oldest City: First Cathedral, Columbus's Palace & Merengue Birthplace…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Seattle

Pacific Northwest Tech Capital: Pike Place Fish Throwers, Rainier Glaciers, Olympic Rainforest & Gru…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

St Louis

Gateway Arch, Lewis & Clark Departure Point, Free Zoo & The Birthplace of Rock and Roll Guitar…

North America
🇨🇦 Canada

Toronto

CN Tower at opening, Kensington Market bohemia and the most multicultural food mile on earth…

North America
🇨🇦 Canada

Vancouver

Stanley Park Old-Growth Forest, Capilano Suspension Bridge, Grouse Mountain, Museum of Anthropology …

North America
🇲🇽 Mexico

Veracruz

San Juan de Ulúa Colonial Fortress, El Tajín UNESCO Pyramids, Voladores de Papantla, Son Jarocho Mus…

North America
🇺🇸 United States

Washington DC

Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Wall of 58,318 Names, Apollo 11 Command Module, Declaration of In…