Evansville is the third-largest city in Indiana, sitting on the Ohio River in the south-western corner of the state near the borders with Kentucky and Illinois. The river gave the city its early importance as a shipping and manufacturing hub, and the Ohio River Waterfront remains one of its more attractive features, with the restored McCurdy Hotel anchoring the riverfront historic district.
The Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science is the city's main cultural institution, with a broad collection ranging from fine art to a planetarium. The Angel Mounds State Historic Site, on the eastern edge of the city, preserves the remains of a large pre-Columbian Mississippian settlement and is one of the best-preserved Native American sites in the Midwest.
The city has a compact, walkable downtown with some good Victorian architecture, including the Art Deco Hulman Building, the opulent Reitz Home Museum, and the 1938 Greyhound Bus Terminal — a Streamline Moderne gem. The Haynie's Corner Arts District is the best area for independent restaurants and bars. Outside the downtown, Wesselman Woods is one of the last old-growth urban forests in the country, and Bosse Field — the 1915 baseball stadium where "A League of Their Own" was filmed — is worth an evening visit when the Otters are playing.