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23 Unexpected City Vacations to Add to Your Travel Bucket List
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As Seen In: Good Housekeeping November 18, 2025
In your urban era? Same! A cave spa, baseball stadium with a lazy river, and book-filled treasure chest are surprising finds within the city winners from Good Housekeeping's 2026 Travel Awards.
Exploring new cities should be exciting for your entire crew. As part of the Good Housekeeping 2026 Travel Awards, our testers logged miles to uncover destinations with big-ticket thrills, budget-friendly bites and space to breathe back at the hotel. Along the way, we found surprising activities you might not expect — and definitely won’t want to miss.
Frisco, Texas
This Dallas suburb hits it out of the park with its kid-friendly attractions. For starters, the Frisco RoughRiders built a lazy river in their Minor League stadium, so your fam can watch the game from an inner tube! Frisco also boasts a museum kids might be especially eager to visit—the National Video Game Museum offers interactive exhibits with both new and nostalgic games that families can play together. And should “video game creator” not be the career your gamer is considering, Kidzania, a children’s museum–like space, allows members of the future workforce to role-play more than 100 professions.
Read the full article by Karen Cicero in Good Housekeeping