This holiday season marks the 21st installment of the Old World Christmas Market in Elkhart Lake. This annual event takes place at The Osthoff Resort, where for 10 days, visitors can shop for specialty items in heated tents, munch on bratwurst and roasted almonds, sip hot glühwein and visit with Father Christmas.
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For two weekends each December, visitors to Colorado can take a break from skiing for a visit to the Georgetown Christmas Market. The aroma of roasted chestnuts fills the air of this charming and historic mountain town, while visitors enjoy horse-drawn wagon rides, visits with St. Nick, carolers in Victorian garb and a procession of Saint Lucia staged daily.
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This holiday season, Philadelphia's Love Park will once again host a German-style Christmas market. Christmas Village in Philadelphia includes more than 80 tradition wooden booths where international vendors will sell ornaments, hand-crafted gifts, jewelry and traditional German treats, like mulled wine, bratwurst, gingerbread and waffles. It's a perfect setting for a holiday photo op with the iconic LOVE statue, located right at the heart of the market.
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The Mile High City celebrates the season with its annual Denver Christkindl Market. The festival at Skyline Park will feature vendors from Colorado and Europe, traditional German music, holiday tunes and foods prepared by a European-trained chef. It's a perfect place to pick up unique holiday gifts, like German beer steins, handmade jewelry, cashmere scarves, German lace, chocolate and seasonal decorations.
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It's only fitting that a town named Bethlehem would have a stellar Christmas festival. This Pennsylvania town, nicknamed Christmas City, celebrates the season with an old world-style Christkindlmarkt. Visitors can shop from more than 150 vendors, enjoy live performances, visit St. Nicholas or attend workshops and demonstrations in ice carving, glassblowing and ornament-making.
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Visitors to San Francisco over the holiday season are transported back in time to the London of Charles Dickens during the Great Dickens Christmas Fair. Several acres of exhibition halls become Victorian-era pubs, streets, alleys and dance halls where guests can watch live entertainment on seven stages, munch on fish 'n' chips and do some holiday shopping. Victorian costumes are encouraged.
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New York has many wonderful holiday markets, but one of our favorites is Winter Village at Bryant Park. This free family festival brings more than 170 holiday vendors to Bryant Park to create a European-style Christmas market. In addition, attendees can ice skate on the Big Apple's only free admission rink, sip on festive cocktails or dine at one of a dozen restaurant concepts.
Photo courtesy of Angelito Jusay / Bank of America Winter Village at Bryant Park

During the holiday season, Chicago's Daley Plaza gets transformed into a European-style Christmas market inspired by the original in Nuremburg, Germany. Just like markets in Germany, Christkindlmarket Chicago will feature holiday shopping, traditional German food and drink, live entertainment and appearances by Chicago's very own Christkind.
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DC's Downtown Holiday Market celebrates its fourteenth installment in 2018. More than 150 regional vendors set up shop in the nation's capital, selling a variety of hand-crafted and boutique wares, while bands and singers representing a wide swathe of musical styles entertain.
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Inspired by the holiday markets of Germany, Texas Christkindl Market brings one of the largest open-air holiday markets in the Southwest to Arlington, Texas. In addition to shopping and and tasting traditional German treats, market-goers can listen to local school choirs and Texas musicians, watch traditional German dance or attend a gingerbread making workshop.
Photo courtesy of Texas Christkindl Market