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Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge Welcome to Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, the 9,000-acre wildlife refuge located in Virginia Beach, founded in 1938. Located in what was formerly Princess Anne County, this wetland refuge host thousands of migratory waterfowl, such as snow geese and tundra swans. The area serves as a ‘feeding and resting habitat’ for…

Wicker Park Welcome to one of Chicago’s most up-and-coming neighborhoods, Wicker Park. This area has a fascinating history of a rapid transformation in the 80’s and ’90s from a neighborhood of ‘gang bangers, drug addicts, and prostitutes’ to ‘one of the coolest neighborhoods in the U.S’. Right along with Wicker Park, you have Noble Square,…

Sidewalk Food Tours of Chicago Experience the best of Chicago and all of its deliciousness. Sidewalk Food Tours of Chicago is one of the absolute best tour companies for both culinary and historic Chicago information, these 3-hour food and history tours showing you some of the coolest, and tastiest, spots in the city. Specialty food…

Green City Market Chicago Chicago’s first and largest year-round sustainable farmers market, the Green City Market, is  MUST visit while here for any eco-lovers, farmers, science gurus, or foodies in general! This Lincoln Park Market and Edible Garden space offers free tours of its amazing market system, this year being it’s 19th in business! This…

Ipsento Coffee Welcome to one of the finest coffee shops in all of Chicago, the highly-praised Ipsento Coffee. This counter-serve coffee cafe offers not only the tastiest lattes in the city, but also several tasty choices sandwiches, pastries, and other ‘lite bites’. Ipsento started in 2006, the name itself explaining the reasoning behind it; ‘ipse’…

Rick Bayless Gardens Welcome to one of the most unique, most eco-friendly, and most vibrant spots in Chicago, the Rick Bayless Gardens. Located on 606 Elevated Park in Bucktown, this garden spot provides a colorful spread of 1,000 square feet of greenery. The ‘backyard area’ here at Bucktown is the main production garden and holds…

Chicago Detours Founded in 2010, Chicago Detours provides one of the best overall tour experiences in the city, the founder of the company bringing over 12 years of experience in the field as a tour guide and researcher with Rick Steve’s Europe team. The many different tours offered through this tour company are fun and…

Patsy Cline Museum Located right about the Johnny Cash Museum you will find a museum unique to any other in the country, the Patsy Cline Museum! What makes this museum so special? It presents never before seen personal belongings, artifacts, and memorabilia from the too-short life of country-pop music icon, Patsy Cline. Walking around the…

Space Center Houston Founded in 1992, Space Center Houston serves as the official visitor center of the very famous NASA Jonson Space Center. Space Center Houston is a ‘leading science and space center’ for the United States and also serves as a proud Smithsonian Affiliate Museum. This educational center highlights all eras of American space…

Houston Museum of Natural Science Welcome to the Houston Museum of Natural Science, ‘one of the most heavily attended science museums in the country’. Located in northern Hermann Park, this spacious museum space holds a dinosaur hall, planetarium, Imax, butterfly house, and permanent exhibit spaces. You can certainly spend a whole day here exploring and…