1. When you live in Durham, this is your view.
Durham, N.C.'s skyline
2. This could be where you go to root for the home team...
Durham Bulls Athletic Park
3. ...and where you can pose for pictures with the cutest mascot around.
The Durham Bull's mascot Wool E. Bull
4. Durham also has the cutest fans.
5. No seriously, the cutest fans.
6. One of the state's finest breweries calls Durham home.
The Fullsteam Brewery
7. And after a pint, you can catch a live show across the street at Motorco.
Motorco Music Hall
8. In Durham the music is even better than the venues...
Ben Rector performs at the Carolina Theatre Of Durham
9. ...and that is saying a lot.
Durham Performing Arts Center
10. Even if some of them do have pandas puking rainbows on the walls.
The Pin Hook
11. The pimento cheese and toast points at Geer St. Garden are a Durham delicacy.
12. And after dinner, you can wander over to Cocoa Cinnamon for a perfectly poured espresso.
13. You'll flip over the wooded swimming holes.
Eno River State Park
14. Go gaga for the gothic architecture.
Duke Cathedral
15. And fall in love with (and maybe even in) the gardens.
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
16. You can get a taste for Cajun food and the blues.
Papa Mojo's Roadhouse
17. Or cheer on the one of the nation's top five basketball teams.
At a Duke basketball game
18. You can Rise for a giant buttery biscuit.
A toasted butter biscuit from Rise Biscuit and Donuts
19. Or let your inner-epicurean cowboy up, at the food truck rodeo.
Durham's food truck rodeo
20. You can pet a lemur (well, at least see one).
Duke Lemur Center
21. And hang out under a piece of tobacco history.
The Lucky Strike Water Tower in the American Historic Tobacco District
22. In Durham, history is around every corner...
Duke Homestead State Historic Site
23. ...and the past is still considered beautiful.
24. Sometimes history becomes art.
25. And sometimes art celebrates history.
"Cowpernicus" by Beth Janeway Hallyburton was inspired by Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
26. All the cool kids live here.
Sylvan Esso
27. And people are full of bright ideas.
From Durham Cares' initiative to help discover solutions to local issues
28. This could be part of your hiking route.
29. And so could this natural wonder.
Beaver Dam
30. You can get ready for the Olympics.
Triangle Curling Club
31. Then eat a boatload of sushi.
Sushi Love restaurant
32. And end every day with the most beautiful sunset.
