USA

Our Top Picks For USA

• 1 Dip into the Great Lakes

  Be awed by the planet’s largest supply of freshwater, harbored by a chain of lakes strung with beaches, sand dunes, offshore islands and forests.

• 2 Make a pitstop at Carhenge, Nebraska

  Automobile art at its best, this roadside attraction will forever change your view of Stonehenge

• 3 Go zip-lining in Ketchikan

  Zip down a 4600ft mountain to a stream full of bears feasting on salmon

• 4 Meet Lucy the Margate Elephant in Atlantic City

  There's no shortage of eccentric in Atlantic City, but this 65-ft high wooden replica of a pachyderm will stop you in your tracks.

• 5 Play Ultimate Frisbee in Washington, DC

  Join locals in a game of Frisbee in America's front yard, DC's National Mall

• 6 Get into gumbo in New Orleans

  Scooping out a steaming pot of gumbo is as central to life in New Orleans as listening to jazz, zydeco or swamp blues. Get into it.

• 7 Pick up a bargain at Pike Place Market, Seattle

  You're bound to find something you've always wanted at the 4-hectare Pike Place Market, the USA's oldest surviving market

• 8 Stare into the depths of the Grand Canyon

  Hike to the canyon floor and back to appreciate its grandeur: this 446km-long channel is pretty impressive

• 9 Rock climb at Yosemite National Park

  Climb with the bravest at El Capitan, Yosemite's 915m granite wall

• 10 Drive into Mesa Verde National Park

  Drive up onto the cool, thickly forested mesas of southwestern Colorado to clamber inside Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings at this archaeological national park

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