Archive for category: Attractions
Opened in 1987 during a major real estate boom, Bayside Marketplace has been one of downtown Miami’s most popular tourist attractions. With shopping, dining and a variety of boat tours and party cruises available at Bayside’s marina; it is guaranteed to provide you with an entertaining day. The shopping center was often featured on the television show “Miami Vice” thanks [...]
When people think about Utah for a vacation, they usually think skiing, or possibly hanging out in Park City during the Sundance Film Festival – but scuba diving, not likely. However, there is one place in Utah, amongst its unique parks like Bryce Canyon and Monument Valley, where you can actually go scuba diving in an underwater hot spring. A [...]
There are beautiful places, and then there is western North Carolina. The Blue Ridge Mountains, millenniums old, gently rounded by weather and time, roll soft and green across miles of wilderness. No doubt, there are many fun and quirky bed n’ breakfasts and hotels to be found. But to really experience the land there is truly nothing like camping by [...]
The Schatzkammer Museum in Vienna, Austria is a dream vacation tour for the both the wealthy and the underprivileged. Even the world’s richest people could not ever afford the many treasures therein any more than the pauper as each piece is priceless. Art renderings in portrait (or in precious metal and precious stone) were gathered for centuries through acquisitions by [...]
Opened in 1926, Knoebels Amusement Resort is a family owned amusement park, picnic grove and campground with more than fifty rides including two wooden roller coasters, the 1913 Grand Carousel featuring sixty three hand-carved horses, and a haunted house dark ride that has been featured on the Discovery Channel. The park has won awards from all kinds of organizations like [...]
Florida Wine Country is an actuality. There are many places in the state to sit and taste the best Florida has to offer in the way of its wines. Many vintners haven’t even a grape in the bunch (pun intended). What is most typical of Florida wines is the use of the many native fruits such as orange and strawberry [...]
Rye Beach Playland (also called simply Playland) in New York State is just a 30 minute drive from the city and worth every mile for the adventure that awaits you! Playland has the distinction of being the first fully planned amusement park in The United States and exists as the prototype for all other theme park ventures. Rye Playland has [...]
Near I-64 in Santa Claus, Indiana is one of the most popular theme parks in the United States, Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari. This family-owned theme and water park combination offers guests the best of both worlds. Originally opened as Santa Claus Land in 1946, Holiday World was the first themed amusement park in the world opening nine years before [...]