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Many holiday movies have blockbuster casts that are the reason people flock to the theaters during this special time of year. Sadly, a cast member that adds just as much to the movie as the actors, but doesn’t get as much recognition, is the movie the film is set in. These cities have as much to do with the movie’s success as the talent that stars in them.

You might not consider a day trip to the beach during the fall and winter months, but sometimes the unexpected ideas turn out to be the best ones. Here, the Red Tricycle explains how a visit to San Francisco's Ocean Beach can be a great family adventure any time of year.

It is Disneyland’s most exclusive and expensive restaurant. Yet many people walk right by the inconspicuous entrance without realizing what’s behind it. Discreetly located between the Pirates of the Caribbean exit and The Blue Bayou restaurant, on Royal Street in New Orleans Square, Club 33 is a posh, member’s-only eatery.

Nothing yields a fresh perspective quite as much as an observation deck. Whether you’re the cautious person who stands back from the rail and looks far, far out or the daredevil who leans as close to the edge as possible, you can’t help but be impressed by the view from umpteen floors up.

Whether you’re a loyal iPhone user or you love your Android device, smartphone apps have changed the way we travel. You no longer need to carry around a map, guidebook, bus schedule, and directions to the restaurant you want to try for lunch. You can find all of that, and more, on your phone.

Where can you see the colors of spring all year long, or the flame-like blaze of an autumn maple leaf even in the dead of winter? Visitors to the Harvard Museum of Natural History can witness the forever-blooming botanicals that make up the Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants, aka The Glass Flowers, a fragile collection of flora first created over a century ago by the glass artist father and son team of Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka.

“The rats are pretty big down here, so don’t fall behind.” So begins the short, quirky and fun descent into the Emerald City’s underground.

Now that Halloween is just around the corner, it’s time to finalize your costume details, your pumpkin design and of course, where you’re going to spend the spooky day. Well, whether you’re staying home or willing to travel, we’ve compiled a list of the most horrifying cities to visit for Halloween -- a list of places with a dose of darkness that is fitting for such a holiday.

EMP presents Can't Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film, an in-depth exploration into horror, and how it is expressed through cinema, biology, history, and contemporary culture.

Veronica Nielsen likes to point out that she’s a Texan by choice, not by circumstance. “I wasn’t born here, but I came as soon as I could,” the Pennsylvania native explains. She’s turned her love for the city of Houston into a career as the information source behind the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureaus popular “Ask Veronica” website feature.