Look Up, America! New Walking Tours From Walkthetown.com

Online, December 7, 2011 (Newswire.com) - There is no better time to visit American cities. After two decades of flush pockets that saw private investment rehabbing decaying buildings and public money spent to preserve and spruce up heritage structures, many towns have never looked finer. And likely won't look this good for the foreseeable future with now cash-strapped cities unable to dole out the generous maintenance budgets of recent years.

Philadelphia, for instance, found $83 million to clean and patch its City Hall, proclaimed "the greatest single effort of late-19th-century American architecture" by the American Institute of Architects. The story is the same in Buffalo, Richmond, Milwaukee, Cleveland and scores of other historic towns it is time to look at again.

There is no better way to see American towns than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a self-guided walking tour from the LOOK UP, AMERICA! series. There are walking tours available for over 300 American towns at walkthetown.com.

Each walking tour costs 99 cents and is available:
* as an eBook formatted for Kindle, iBooks, the Barnes & Noble Nook and other popular eReaders
* downloadable direct to your mobile device via Smashwords
* through the walkthetown.com mobile app

A walking tour can be many things. Interested in heritage tourism? Looking for an educational day trip for the kids? Need a fun exercise plan? Want to find subjects to take great photographs? Each walking tour describes a mix of historical, architectural, cultural and ecclesiastical landmarks. Street addresses and step-by-step directions lead the way. A quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets is included. Whether you are visiting a new town or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a walkthetown.com walking tour is ready to explore when you are.

So look twice before crossing the street and get out and look up, America!