Places to Visit Historic Towns
The Mississippi River paddlewheeler Creole Queen is once again making daily tours to Chalmette Battlefield from the French Quarter, giving visitors a unique way to reach the site of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. 
Just as the merchant economy seemed to spring up overnight in the gold fields, Columbia State Historic Park will be alive with activity in its own tent town as history is recreated for the public and school children during the last weekend in May.
Buffalo, Wyoming, known to some as the "Gateway to Yellowstone," is an American gem that many visitors only discover on their way to one of the West's most popular outdoor destinations.
With a population approaching 4 million, it's hard to think of glitzy Los Angeles as anything more than a megalopolis (second largest city in the U.S.) made up of movie stars, really wacky people (oops, did we just repeat ourselves?) and - palm trees...
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