When you plan a family vacation, reflect on big city tours (even if you live in one) and smile at their wide-eyed amazement. Here are several great cities that offer traveler an overabundance of entertainment and are best for family vacations.

New York City is for kids of all ages, from Broadway plays to Central Park’s Zoo and Wildlife Center, the Children’s Zoo, horse and carriage trips and Belvedere Castle, in just several blocks you can charge a whole weekend. Get aboard the ferryboat to the Statue of Liberty or ride the elevator to the top of the Empire State building for endless panoramas. Visit the American Museum of Natural History or Museum of Art for a bit of culture. It doesn’t matter what you get on each corner, the family will have fun for sure.

Boston city is a mingle of old and new. Boston’s history remains a clash of its present in its brownstones lining paved streets that have been motherland to Bostonians since the 1700s, one of the country’s oldest standing baseball stadiums, Fenway Park, and shopping and dining centers in the city’s primary “mall” at Quincy Market. New constructions feature the Children’s Museum and New England Aquarium, as well as the Museum of Science, all of which offer children with hands-on education opportunities that are plethora of entertainment.

The country’s capital of Washington, D.C. is one of the nation’s greatest cities for family vacations, for where else can you find 19 museums, all free and open to the public? The Smithsonian’s 19 museums, with the Air and Space Museum, the Museum of American Art and the Museum of Natural History will provide days upon days of interactive attractions. Moreover you can visit all of Washington’s monuments and memorials, comprising the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials, the Washington Monument all situated around the Washington Mall, with panoramas of the White House and the Capitol Building. Washington City makes children’ history novels come true.