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One City, Five Hours: St. Louis
1 Enter the city with a walk under the Gateway Arch (gatewayarch.com). Wow, it’s big. No time to climb to the top, but poke your head in the Museum of Westward Expansion and see if you can tell the...
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One City, Five Hours: Stockholm
01 One block from Central Station, you’ll find the Nordic Sea Hotel (Vasaplan 4, www.nordicseahotel.se), where you can slip on a cozy thermal cape and descend into the frigid Absolut Ice Bar to sip...
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One City, Five Hours: Mexico City
1 Get your bearings among the craft purveyors, indigenous dancers and gawking tourists in the sprawling Zócalo. Step out of the madness and into the Palacio Nacional (El Zócalo, Centro) for a free...
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One City, Five Hours: Phoenix
1 Slather on some SPF 50 and head to the Desert Botanical Garden (1201 N. Galvin Pkwy.; www.dbg.org), a quiet oasis of exotic plants and towering cacti smack in the middle of America’s fifth-largest...
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One City, Five Hours: Singapore
1 Start your Singapore sprint with a glass of well-priced Moët at the New Asia Bar (2 Stamford Rd.; www.swissotel.com). Located on the 71st floor of the Swissotel, it’s the highest bar in Singapore...
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One City Five Hours: Old San Juan
1 First things first: souvenirs. Puerto Rican Art and Crafts (204 Fortaleza St.; www.puertoricanart-crafts.com) has it all, from high-end ceramics to handmade jewelry. But what you want is a mask of a...
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One City, Five Hours: Frankfurt
1 Your sprint through Frankfurt starts by taking the S-bahn to Taunusanlage. (Say that five times fast.) From there, walk to the spectacular Main Tower (Neue Mainzer Straße 52-58; www.maintower.de)...
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One City, Five Hours: Washington D.C
1 Arrive hungry at Ben’s Chili Bowl (1213 U St. NW; www.benschilibowl.com), a veritable D.C. institution (its owners were inducted into the city’s Hall of Fame) best known for its heavenly chili dogs...
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One City, Five Hours: Seattle
1 Kick things off in Pioneer Square (www.pioneersquaredistrict.org), a historic district that was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1889 and is now colonized by artists. Nod and murmur to yourself...
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One City, Five Hours: Melbourne
1 Begin with a quick dash through the Melbourne Zoo (Elliot Ave.; www.zoo.org.au/melbournezoo), smack in the middle of the spectacular Royal Park. Catch a glimpse of some native Australian marsupials,...
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One City, Five Hours: Vancouver
1 Tighten your laces and speed-walk through the Museum of Anthropology (6393 NW Marine Dr.; www.moa.ubc.ca), which showcases thousands of artworks, tools and other objects created by the indigenous...
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One City, Five Hours: Minneapolis
1 Start your ramble through this Twin City with a look at the impressive contemporary architecture of the Guthrie Theater (818 S 2nd St.; www.guthrietheater.org). Then head to the end of the Endless...
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One City, Five Hours: Miami
1 First stop: coffee. Strong, Cuban coffee in a demitasse cup from Versailles Restaurant (3555 SW Eighth St.), a landmark eatery on Calle Ocho in Miami’s Little Havana. When you get to South...
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One City, Five Hours: Charlotte
1 Get a taste of the Old South at the Levine Museum of the New South (200 E. Seventh St.; www.museumofthenewsouth.org). You can play checkers on an old mill house porch or sit at a recreation of a...
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One City, Five Hours: Shanghai
1 Start with Shanghai’s succulent signature pork and crab soup dumplings, xiaolong bao, at Din Tai Fung (South Block, Unit 11, House 6, Ln. 123 Xingye Rd.; www.dintaifung.com.tw). Use the tried-...
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One City, Five Hours: Sydney
1 Head to Circular Quay (Alfred Street) to get your obligatory tourist photo of the Harbour Bridge. Walk out just far enough to get a good breath of sea air and a view of this majestic city, then turn...
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One City, Five Hours: Copenhagen
1 Get familiar with the Scandinavian sensibility by swinging through the Danish Design Center (HC Andersens Blvd. 27; www.en.ddc.dk), where you’ll learn about the evolution of the ubiquitous...
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One City, Five Hours: Reno
1 Voted best breakfast in North Lake Tahoe for dishes like crab cake eggs benedict and a french toast tower made out of cinnamon rolls, The Log Cabin Caffe (8692 North Lake Blvd., King’s Beach,...
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One City, Five Hours: Albuquerque
1 Begin at the beginning by learning the city’s history at the National Hispanic Cultural Center (1701 4th St. SW; nhccnm.org). Here you can admire distinctive Spanish Colonial furniture dating back...
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One City, Five Hours: Toronto
1 There are some museums you can get lost in for days, and the Royal Ontario Museum (Bloor Street West and Avenue Road; rom.on.ca) is one of them. Since you’re short on time, settle for a quick spin...
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