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Arlington Nationa'l Cemetery
Acro the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia;closest Metro Arlington Cemetery.April–Sept daily 8am–7pm;rest of year daily 8am–5pm.202/703/692-0931.Admiion free.A poignant contrast to the grand monuments of the capital is provided by the vast sea of identical white headstones on the hillsides of Arlington National Cemetery.The country's most honored final resting place was first used during the Civil War, when the grand mansion at the top of the hill, and all the
surrounding land, belonged to Confederate leader Robert E Lee.Nearly 200,000 US war dead lie here, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier remembers
thousands more whose bodies were never recovered or identified.An eternal flame marks the grave of President John F Kennedy, near his brother Robert and, as of 1994, next to his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onais.Among other
well-known names is Pierre L'Enfant, whose grave site offers a superb view over the Mall and the District he designed;while the new Women in Military Service Memorial, by the main gate, is just one of several high-profile memorials to celebrated personnel, like the doomed crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger.Unle you have strong legs and lots of time, the best way to see the vast
cemetery is by Tourmobile, which leaves from the visitor center at the entrance.You can also walk here from the Lincoln Memorial acro the Arlington Bridge.Grand Canyon
Although three million people come to see the GRAND CANYON OF THE
COLORADO every year, it remains beyond the grasp of the human imagination.No photograph, no set of statistics, can prepare you for such vastne.At more than one mile deep, it's an inconceivable aby;at between four and eighteen miles wide it's an endle expanse of bewildering shapes and colors, glaring desert brightne and impenetrable shadow, stark promontories and soaring, never-to-be-climbed sandstone pinnacles.Somehow it's so impaive, so
remote – you could never call it a disappointment, but at the same time many visitors are left feeling peculiarly flat.In a sense, none of the available activities can quite live up to that first stunning sight of the chasm.The overlooks along the rim all offer views that shift and change unceasingly from dawn to sunset;you can hike down into the depths on foot or by mule, hover above in a
helicopter or raft through the whitewater rapids of the river itself;you can spend
a night at Phantom Ranch on the canyon floor, or swim in the waterfalls of the idyllic Havasupai Reservation.And yet that distance always remains – the Grand Canyon stands apart.Until the 1920s, the average visitor would stay for two or three weeks.These days it's more like two or three hours – of which forty minutes are spent actually looking at the canyon.The vast majority come to the South Rim – it's much easier to get to, there are far more facilities(mainly at Grand Canyon Village), and it's open all year round.There is another lodge and campground at the North Rim, which by virtue of its isolation can be a lot more evocative, but at one thousand feet higher it is usually closed by snow from mid-October until May.Few people visit both rims;to get from one to the other demands either a
two-day hike down one side of the canyon and up the other, or a 215-mile drive by road.Finally, there's a definite risk that on the day you come the Grand Canyon will be invisible beneath a layer of fog, thanks to the 250 tons of sulphurous emiions pumped out every day by the Navajo Generating Station, seventy miles upriver at Page.Admiion to the park, valid for seven days on either rim, is $20 per vehicle or $10 for pedestrians and cyclists.Chinatown in New York
On the surface, Chinatown is prosperous – a “model slum,” some have called it – with the lowest crime rate, highest employment and least juvenile
delinquency of any city district.Walk through its crowded streets at any time of day, and every shop is doing a brisk and businelike trade: restaurant after restaurant is booming;there are storefront displays of shiny squids, clawing crabs and clambering lobster;and street markets offer overflowing piles of exotic green vegetables, garlic and ginger root.Chinatown has the feel of a land of plenty, and the reason why lies with the Chinese themselves: even here, in the very core of downtown
Manhattan, they have been careful to preserve their own way of dealing with things, preferring to keep affairs close to the bond of the family and allowing few intrusions into a still-insular culture.There have been several conceions to Westerners – storefront signs now offer English translations, and Haagen Dazs and Baskin Robbins ice-cream stores have opened on lower Mott Street – but
they can't help but seem incongruous.The one time of the year when Chinatown bursts open is during the Chinese New Year festival, held each year on the first full moon after January 19, when a giant dragon runs down Mott Street to the accompaniment of firecrackers, and the gutters run with ceremonial dyes.Beneath the neighborhood's blithely prosperous facade, however, there is a darker underbelly.Sharp practices continue to flourish, with traditional
extortion and protection rackets still in busine.Non-union sweatshops – their aembly lines grinding from early morning to late into the evening – are still visited by the US Department of Labor, who come to investigate workers' testimonies of being paid below minimum wage for seventy-plus-hour work weeks.Living conditions are abysmal for the poorer Chinese – mostly recent immigrants and the elderly – who reside in small rooms in overcrowded tenements ill-kept by landlords.Yet, because the community has been
cloistered for so long and has only just begun to seek help from city officials for its internal problems, you won't detect any hint of difficulties unle you reside in Chinatown for a considerable length of time
Disneyland
Walt Disney
Walt and Roy Disney began their partnership on October 16, 1923 when they signed a contract to produce the Alice Comedies, a series of six-to eight-minute animated films, or “shorts,” combining live-action and animation.What began as the Disney Brothers Studio evolved into The Walt Disney Company.Throughout the decades, the company has expanded worldwide from shorts to feature-length animated and live-action films and television production;
character merchandise licensing;consumer products retailing;book, magazine and music publishing;Internet activities;television and radio broadcasting;cable television programming;and the operation of theme parks and resorts.From the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1927 and the debut of Mickey Mouse in 1928 to the premiere of Tarzan in 1999, animation has remained the defining signature of the company.Along the way, Disney has added succeful TV shows like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, opened theme parks in California, Florida, France and Japan, launched more than 700 Disney Stores and added brands such as Touchstone, Miramax, ABC and ESPN to the fold.To make the most of Disneyland – the ultimate escapist fantasy and the
blueprint for imitations worldwide – throw yourself right into it.Don't think twice about anything and go on every ride you can.The high admiion price($36)includes them all, although during peak periods each one can entail hours of queueing.Remember, too, that the emphasis is on family fun;the authorities take a dim view of anything remotely anti-social and eject those they consider guilty.Over four hundred “Imaginers” worked to create the Indiana Jones Adventure, Disneyland's biggest opening in years.Two hours of queueing are built into the ride, with an interactive archeological dig and 1930s-style newsreel show
leading up to the main feature – a giddy journey along 2500ft of skull-encrusted corridors in which you face fireballs, falling rubble, venomous snakes and, inevitably, a rolling boulder finale.Disney claims that, thanks to computer engineering, no two Indiana Jones rides are ever alike.Judge for yourself.Among the best of the older rides are two in Adventureland: the Pirates of the Caribbean, a boat trip through underground caverns, singing along with
drunken pirates;and the Haunted Mansion, a riotous “doom buggy” tour in the company of the house spooks.Tomorrowland is Disney's vision of the future, where the Space Mountain roller coaster zips through the pitch-blackne of outer space, and the Star Tours ride simulates a journey into the world of George Lucas.The Skyway cable-car line that connects Tomorrowland with the clever but cloyingly sentimental
Fantasyland is the only spot in the park from which you can see the outside world.As for accommodation, try to visit Disneyland just for the day and spend the night somewhere else.Most of the hotels and motels nearby cost well in exce of $70 per night.You're not permitted to bring your own food to the park;you can only consume the fast food sold on the premises.Disneyland is at 1313 Harbor Blvd, Anaheim, 45 minutes by car from downtown using the Santa Ana Freeway.In summer, the park is open daily between 8am and 1am;otherwise opening hours are weekdays 10am to 6pm, Saturday 9am
to midnight, and Sunday 9am to 10pm.Arrive early;traffic quickly becomes nightmarish, especially in the summer.For further information, including public transportation details, call 714/999-4565.Golden Gate Bridge
The orange towers of the Golden Gate Bridge – probably the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed bridge in the world – are visible from almost every point of elevation in San Francisco.The only cleft in Northern California's 600-mile continental wall, for years this mile-wide strait was considered
unbridgeable.As much an architectural as an engineering feat, the Golden Gate took only 52 months to design and build, and was opened in 1937.Designed by Joseph Strau, it was the first really maive suspension bridge, with a span of 4200ft, and until 1959 ranked as the world's longest.It connects the city at its northwesterly point on the peninsula to Marin County and Northern California, rendering the hitherto eential ferry croing redundant, and was designed to withstand winds of up to a hundred miles an hour and to swing as much as 27ft.Handsome on a clear day, the bridge takes on an eerie quality when the thick white fogs pour in and hide it almost completely.You can either drive or walk acro.The drive is the more thrilling of the two options as you race under the bridge's towers, but the half-hour walk acro it really gives you time to take in its enormous size and absorb the views of the city behind you and the headlands of Northern California straight ahead.Pause at the midway point and consider the seven or so suicides a month who choose this spot, 260ft up, as their jumping-off spot.Monitors of such events speculate that victims always face the city before they leap.In 1995, when the suicide toll from the bridge had reached almost 1000, police kept the figures quiet to avoid a rush of would-be suicides going for the dubious distinction of being the thousandth person to leap.Perhaps the best-loved symbol of San Francisco, in 1987 the Golden Gate proved an auspicious place for a sunrise party when crowds gathered to
celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.Some quarter of a million people turned up(a third of the city's entire population);the winds were strong and the huge numbers caused the bridge to buckle, but fortunately not to break.
