♪♪ Situated high on the bluffs overlooking Burlington, Mosquito Park may be the smallest park in town, but it has the biggest and most beautiful views along this stretch of river.

♪♪ Below, the riverfront welcomes travelers with culinary and cultural delights.

♪♪ Billups: So it's a beautiful town, both during the day and at night.

Burlington is known for its downtown architecture.

In fact, it's all lit up at night, so it's beautiful when you come over the bridge.

Seeing all our church steeples and buildings lit up, the Great River Bridge is lit up Kroll: There's just so much more than there was.

These old buildings are being revitalized and they're cool, you know?

♪♪ Billups: We have a lot of big city amenities and a lot of big city attractions, but still small town living, so it's great.

There is just something unique about Burlington.

It kind of sits down in this little valley right on the Mississippi River.

Billups: It almost has like a Nashville feel.

On a Friday night, there was live music and venues, and you could pop in and out, walk the whole way with our well-lit streets.

Then plus, we have the other activities like the arts.

We have a strong arts and music program throughout the city, like Civic Music and the Municipal Band.

The play is every Sunday.

You'll see the Memorial Auditorium, which we have a lot of outdoor and indoor events over the years.

You'll see our splash pad, which is new, our new park like environment.

And then as you move forth, we have a great riverfront park along with the marina and our North Dock capabilities.

So we're truly a boating town.

♪♪ Kohlsdorf: Whether you're docking a boat or parking a car, be sure to stop by this musical gem that's been in business since the eight track.

Weird Harold's has thousands of vinyl records filling two stories of this century old building in downtown Burlington.

I love it when they go upstairs and they see there's, you know, 50,000 records up there.

I love it when they look through that and say, wow, I've never seen a collection this big.

I've been working here since the summer of 1994.

I discovered my love of music when I started working here.

People are amazed by the vast amount of stuff we have in here.

It's unique shop because not only do we have the records and the paraphernalia that goes with the records, but my wife's business is attached right to it.

Hers is an art store, so she has a gallery and picture framing and that kind of thing.

So they kind of work well together.

I find that people who like art usually like music.

In fact, right now I love seeing the resurgence of actual album art.