Interested in travel information on the USA?
Location: Located in North America, the USA is the 3rd largest country in the world, covering 3,717,800 sq. miles (9,629,100 sq. km)
Number of states: 50
Population: 331 million
Language: English
Currency: United States dollar (USD)
USA trip planning: Find crazy-useful flight, hotel booking and other tips in our Resources guide
1) Apple pie (with vanilla ice-cream, of course!)
2) New England clam chowder
3) San Francisco sourdough bread
4) Wild Alaska salmon
5) Key lime pie (from Florida)
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Tops on our list of unique activities in San Francisco is bicycling across the Golden Gate Bridge. Climbing SF’s secret stairways? Listening to the Wave Organ? A love tour in a hippie van? Also very cool San Francisco experiences.
NYC’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is fabulous – but huge! If short on time, must-see pieces include the Van Gogh self-portrait, “Madame X” and the Egyptian Temple of Dendur.
For a luxury getaway, check out our list of the best hotels with private pool suites in the USA. In Chicago and the Poconos, the pools are actually in the room too!
Discover the cutest seaside towns in Northern California on this Pacific Coast road trip! From Morro Bay to Mendocino and beyond, you’ll explore surfing beaches, redwood forests, wineries and more.
Explore Alaska’s untamed “wild and woolly wilderness” with UnCruise Adventures Alaska. Swap out discos for hiking, kayaking and bear watching!
Move over New York and Chicago! The Louisville theater scene packs in a lot of fabulous drama too! Check out the best places to watch musicals and plays in Louisville, Kentucky.
Sip, swirl, savor. Sonoma’s 400+ wineries pack an intoxicating punch. Exploring the Sonoma wine country by bike, we taste bold fruity Zinfadels and more.
Already visited crooked Lombard Street, Chinatown and hoity-toity Nob Hill in San Francisco? Why not climb the Filbert Street steps, past pretty Victorian houses, to Coit Tower, then stop for coffee in North Beach?