Pittsburgh, PA

Philanthropist steel baron Andrew Carnegie spent much of his career building the steel industry in Pittsburgh, also known as Steel City. There are more than a dozen yellow steel bridges crisscrossing the Ohio and Monongahela rivers, skyscrapers mirroring each other’s steel grids, and light rails grinding on steel tracks. Pittsburg Read more…

Dayton, OH

Downtown Dayton is entirely skippable. There are no restaurants, no shops, no street life, and few interpretive plaques on the city’s history. Not even the Second Street Market is open daily like the ones in Colombus and Cincinnati. It’s so boring that it even erected a statue of Lincoln in Read more…

Cincinnati, OH

Cincinnati is home to William Howard Taft’s family, he was the 27th US president. It’s also home to the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, the best place to begin an educational trail to learn all about the Underground Railroad to freedom in Canada. Liberty Street used to be the northern Read more…

Louisville, KY

Everything unhealthy is everything Kentucky. Premium fudge, excellent whiskey, and all the fried chicken you could ever want. Get fat, get drunk, and go to bed. Wake up the next morning and lose money in a casino across the border in Indiana or at the Kentucky Derby in May. The Read more…