Still looking for more? Try one of our destination guides to Burlington.Vermont's pinup for academic excellence, Burlington, is a town ripe with philosophy, history, and gadgetry. You won't go a block without coming across a 19th or early 20th-century brownhouse, and neither will you pass through a caf or casual-dining restaurant where a sleep-deprived student appears to be rambling into a handset about fluctuations in spatial planes or the triumphs and tribulations of the Maoist empire. Situated roughly in the middle of the New England colony group, Vermont is a state known for its brisk, refreshing atmosphere, uniformly vertical forests, and the...more