Audioguides Omaha

Warren Buffett has lived in Omaha since 1958, in the same house on Farnam Street he bought for $31,500. He has turned down more offers to move than most people receive in a lifetime, which says something about the city's hold on those who know it well. Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting brings tens of thousands of shareholders to the CHI Health Center each May -- the 'Woodstock for Capitalists,' as it has been called -- an event that makes Omaha briefly the center of the financial world, and then everything returns to normal.

The Old Market district, a warehouse neighborhood from the 1870s converted into a walkable zone of brick alleys, restaurants, galleries, and cobblestone streets, anchors downtown and gives Omaha its most photographable identity.

The Joslyn Art Museum, housed in a pink Georgia marble building of remarkable beauty, holds a better collection of frontier-era Western American art than you find in most cities twice Omaha's size. Henry Doorly Zoo consistently ranks among the world's best, with an indoor rainforest, an underground desert, and an aquarium under one campus.