4 unique ways to celebrate Valentine's Day in the USA

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Celebrating Valentine’s Day with your loved ones in America? Clueless what to do to make your day special? Here’s a complete love tour guide for the USA to help you out. When it comes to romantic getaways and picnics, USA has umpteen of such places to make you feel even deeper in love with your partner. From Lover’s Aloft in Nevada to Ghost Tour of Philadelphia, here’s how you can spend your Valentine’s Day with your bae in the USA.

Lovers' Aloft, Nevada

There’s no better place to spend Valentine’s Day than the city of Lovelock in Nevada, otherwise known as the "Heart of Nevada". Each year, people from all over flock to the small agriculturally driven community of Lovelock to follow the ancient Chinese tradition of locking their love. In the Lover’s Lock plaza in the heart of downtown Lovelock, visitors can purchase a heart-shaped lock, and forever lock it to a chain with their soul mate, family member, friend, or anyone else that’s important in their life.

Loveland Sweetheart Festival & Valentine Re-Mailing Program, Colorado

Loveland in Colorado is a place where the annual sculpture shows are held. It is also best known worldwide, as the home of the “Valentine Re-Mailing Program”. Every year, more than a hundred thousand Valentines are packaged inside larger envelopes and sent to Loveland, where volunteers hand-stamp them with Valentine’s verse and send them on to the intended recipients. Beside this, Loveland also celebrates Loveland Sweetheart Festival: Love, Locks, and Lights, that feature Love Lock sculptures in the U.S.  Attendees can purchase a customizable love lock to lock onto the sculpture. This year the festival will include the Sweetheart LOVE Art Gallery, Chocolate and Beer & Wine tastings, Sweetheart City Race, mapping projection laser shows, art Installations/Interactive art displays, balloon send off to remember those loved and lost and much more.

Gretna: Destination for couples seeking quickie weddings, New Orleans

Every year Gretna celebrates Valentine’s Day by conducting ceremonies and renewals of vows over the anvil inside the historic Gretna Green Blacksmith shop. It was started in the 19th century, where an agreeable marrying judge, made the area a destination for couples seeking quickie weddings. A free pedestrian ferry ride delivers visitors from New Orleans to the heart of Gretna’s historic downtown, which is also home to many restaurants and museums that honor the city’s original settlers.

Valentine's Ghost Tour of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Valentine’s Ghost Tour of Philadelphia will celebrate its 10th annual tour this year, a special evening of ghostly tales of eternal love, from the cold-hearted and scandalous to the romantic and passionate. It’s a 75-minute candlelight walking tour that includes stops at haunted burial grounds and historic homes, as well as a tour inside the Powel House - a historic mansion Society Hill that has a legacy of ghostly activity.