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Let your stomach be your guide. City Food Tours walks you through some of the tastiest places in the city on a food-filled adventure. A genuinely friendly food expert who knows all the best places to stop for a bite in the city leads your decadently delicious entertainment. Join a daily public tour, reserve your place for a specialized tour or plan your own private tour.

Find out how precious and fragile democracy is when you enter the National Liberty Museum. This expansive eight-gallery museum is dedicated to preserving freedom and democracy by educating people about good character, civic responsibility and respect using 78 exhibits, 179 works of contemporary art and 2,000 stories of American heroes.

Set aside some time to visit the oldest surviving botanical garden in the United States. Bartram’s Garden covers 46 acres in Fairmount Park, and is open to the public for free admission. Try taking a tour inside the historic garden area (the original 8-acre garden begun in 1728), the historic stone house, through the elaborate grove and the largest variety of North American plants in the world.

Swing by one of the most visited tourist attractions: the Betsy Ross House. The carefully preserved and restored Georgian-style house was supposedly the home to Betsy Ross, sewer of the first American flag, and her first husband, John Ross, during the American Revolution. See history come to life as actors share stories and reenact scenes from this significant event.