Take a trolley tour of Chocolate World in Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA and treat yourself to tempting desserts at the Kit Kat Cafe or Courtyard Café. This factory has everything that children or even adult people will enjoy, especially those who are chocolate lover. Learn about the process of making chocolate and see a simulation of how the candy is made.
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At the Spring Mountain ski area, in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, visitors cut through the deep forest on a challenging combination of swaying sky bridges, cable traverses and zip line pathways.
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The annual “Holiday Train Show,’’ in New York City makes you feel a little like an alien visitor just coming ashore; everything familiar is skewed and strange in the fragrant, humid air.
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Frank Lloyd Wright is considered the most influential American architect of the 20th century. Fallingwater, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most widely acclaimed works, was designed in 1936 for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. Built over a waterfall, it displayed Wright’s fascination with European modernism, nature and daring structures. The house is located halfway between the villages of Mill Run and Ohiopyle on Pennsylvania Route 381, USA. Driving time from Pittsburgh is about two hours. Over 2.7 million people have visited Fallingwater since it opened to the public in 1964.
Great cities have great bridges. New York has the Brooklyn Bridge; Venice is a city of beautiful pontes crowned by the Bridge of Sighs. Think San Francisco and you think of the Golden Gate. In Philadelphia, our great span is named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.Plans to construct a bridge between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey on the other side of the Delaware river were made as early as 1818.
The bridge was designed by Paul Philippe Cret, the architect who was also in large part responsible for Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Driving over the bridge and passing under its two tall towers connected by tapering cables, puts one in mind of Dorothy entering into Kingdom of Oz — there is a fearful exhilaration. This bridge does not merely span the Delaware — it soars over the river. Painted a resonant blue, at some points the bridge seems to merge with the sky.
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