The 1,000 Places to See books are pleasurable, inspiring, wondrous, a best-selling phenomenon and, yes, practical: Announcing the updated edition of 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada Before You Die, The New York Times No. 1 bestseller. Because USA & Canada is not only a wish book but also a guide, this information, including phone numbers, Web addresses, and more, is now completely revised and updated. For travel season, for long summer weekends, for whenever the mood strikes to pack up the car and set out to discover a new piece of America (and Canada!), 1,000 Places to See in the USA & Canada is a map to all the unique and wonderful places just around the corner: Sail the Maine Windjammers out of Camden. Explore the gold-mining trails in Alaskas Denali wilderness. Collect exotic shells on the beaches of Captiva. Play tennis the way it was meant to beon grassat the lavish Victorian Newport Casino. Take a barbecue tour of Kansas CityArthur Bryants to Gates to Sneads. Theres the ice hotel in Quebec, the stalacpipe organ in Virginia, out-of-the-way Civil War battlefields, dude ranches and cowboy poetry readings, and what to do in Louisville after the Derbys over.More than 150 places are highlighted as family-friendly, and indices in the back organize the book by subjectwilderness, dining, beaches, world-class museums, sports, festivals, and more.