THE AMERICAS
The Americas
From national parks to Andean cities, learn the rules for tipping, driving and Indigenous sacred sites.
City guides
Start with a city
Every city guide has a timeline, stories of local figures, must-see sights, festivals and local etiquette.
New York City
New York
5 places
From New Amsterdam to five boroughs: a world capital written by immigrants
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San Francisco
San Francisco
2 places
A bay city made by the gold rush: the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars and Alcatraz
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
2 places
City of the Queen of the Angels: Hollywood, beaches and endless freeways
Honolulu
Honolulu
3 places
The old capital of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi: Waikīkī, Diamond Head and Pearl Harbor
Ciudad de México
Mexico City
3 places
An Aztec capital built on a lake: a city of palaces grown from the ruins of Tenochtitlan
Cancún
Cancún
2 places
From a fishing island with three residents to a Caribbean resort city, with Maya ruins nearby
Qosqo · Cusco
Cusco
2 places
Capital of the Inca Empire: Spanish churches built on Inca stone walls
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
3 places
A carnival city between mountains and sea: Christ the Redeemer, Sugarloaf and Ipanema
New Orleans · La Nouvelle-Orléans
New Orleans
3 places
A French old town on a bend of the Mississippi: jazz, Creole food and Mardi Gras
Ville de Québec
Quebec City
2 places
A walled French-speaking old city on the St Lawrence: where New France began
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Yellowknife
Yellowknife
1 places
A gold-mining town on Great Slave Lake: Dene land and the northern lights
Hawaiian poke
'Poke' simply means 'to cut' in Hawaiian: fishermen's offcuts mixed with salt and candlenut as a snack.
New York bagel
A bread ring that's boiled and then baked, brought to New York by Polish Jewish immigrants.
New Orleans beignets
Square fried dough brought by French colonists, with café au lait made with chicory.