Cajun and zydeco music both trace their origins here to St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. One of the best ways to keep these musical traditions alive and accessible to newer generations is through jam sessions. The St. Landry Parish Visitor Center, located off I-49 exit 23 outside Opelousas, is an award-winning architectural feat and symbolic resting place of the accordion genius, Amédé Ardoin. In addition to this, the Visitor Center hosts three jam sessions throughout the month. These jam sessions provide a space for musicians to share their knowledge with each other and give visitors an opportunity to enjoy live music.

The Rink at Rockefeller Center is celebrating its 85th season this year! Originally planned as a temporary exhibit, The Rink was so popular it became a permanent addition, with the Prometheus Statue and the Christmas Tree providing one of the most familiar backdrops in the world.

America's Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) has officially reopened to the public, along with several new exhibits, returning a true icon to Milwaukee's Bronzeville neighborhood, the historic economic and social center of the city's African American community.

Above the looming skyscrapers, the hurried streets and the neon signs of Broadway, there's a whole other New York that's so unlike its infamous namesake city, many visitors might think they're not in Kansas anymore, so to speak. This area is largely—but not entirely—referred to as Upstate New York, and the regions north of the City that Never Sleeps, though starkly different, are anything but sleepy.