Tahoe City is one of the prettiest places you'll ever see, and not just in Lake Tahoe. Yea, we're biased, but it's simply true. From every vantage point, 360 degrees, it's beauty. And that even includes the town center with shops, restaurants and hotels. On summer days, the street is lined with flower baskets at giraffe-head height with color spilling out toward you. To one side you look and see the shimmering Lake Tahoe, to the other the mountains. Across the street you see shops, including an art gallery full of kind of mind-blowing photographs of the area's beauty. Across the street, there's an historic house, classic log cabin style.