"Always something going on" Philadelphia by brazwhazz

Philadelphia seems to be under-appreciated among my friends: back in 2005, when I first told them I was going there (mainly to visit the outstanding Salvador Dalí exhibition at the Museum of Art), I mainly got blank stares.

It seems everyone has gone to New York, Washington or Boston, or can conceive someone would want to go there, but Philadelphia is a big unknown. This, of course, only motivated us more to find out what there is to do in what is still the sixth-largest American city.

What we found was an interesting mix of history, art and Amish.

Sand pyramids at Franklin Square

By 2007, we had taken up the hobby of geocaching, and the folks at the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation came up with a "King Tut Treasure Tour" for the King Tut and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibition at the Franklin Institute.

Needless to say, we did another Montreal-New York-Philadelphia overnight bus trip to complete the King Tut geocaching challenge and take in some more of the city's attractions.

• Pros:Lots to do, both in the city and around it
• Cons:Aside from South Street, much of the city shuts down at night