Lofoten Islands, Norway
Lofoten Islands Norway Fishing Villages and Arctic Beaches
The Lofoten Islands rise out of the Norwegian Sea like a broken wall of granite, a chain of jagged peaks, white sand bay...
Swat Valley, Pakistan
Swat Valley Pakistan Malam Jabba and Kalam Mountain Lakes
Swat Valley, in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, follows the Swat River from the Malakand hills north into the hi...
Toronto, Canada
Toronto Canada CN Tower Island Ferries and Kensington Market
Toronto is Canada's largest city, a sprawling, confident place on the north shore of Lake Ontario where more than half t...
Agra, India
Agra India Taj Mahal at Sunrise Agra Fort and Baby Taj
Agra sits on a bend of the Yamuna River in Uttar Pradesh, and for about a century it was the beating heart of the Mughal...
Cusco and Machu Picchu, Peru
Cusco and Machu Picchu Peru Inca Walls and Sacred Valley
Cusco was the capital of the Inca Empire, and you can still put your hand on walls its builders set in place more than f...
Easter Island, Chile
Easter Island Chile Moai at Ahu Tongariki and Rano Raraku
Easter Island, known to its people as Rapa Nui, sits alone in the southeastern Pacific, more than three thousand kilomet...
Goa, India
Goa India Portuguese Churches Spice Farms and Quiet Beaches
Goa is India's smallest state, yet it packs in long golden beaches, whitewashed churches, Portuguese-era towns, spice fa...
Jaipur, India
Jaipur India Pink City Amber Fort and Hawa Mahal
Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, is a city of hilltop forts, honeycomb palaces and bazaars painted in a warm terracotta...
Mont-Saint-Michel, France
Mont-Saint-Michel France Abbey Ramparts and Tide Timing
Few places look the way they do on a postcard quite like Mont-Saint-Michel. A Gothic abbey crowns a granite island in a...Ad
Montreal, Canada
Montreal Canada Old Montreal Mount Royal and Bagels
Montreal sits on an island in the St. Lawrence River, wrapped around the green hump of Mount Royal, and it feels unlike...
Munich, Germany
Munich Germany Beer Gardens Palaces and Oktoberfest
Munich is Bavaria's capital and Germany's third largest city, yet it often feels more like a large, comfortable town.
Pokhara, Nepal
Pokhara Nepal Phewa Lake Sarangkot Sunrise and Annapurna
Pokhara is the place where most travelers in Nepal finally slow down. The city spreads along the eastern shore of Phewa...
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Japan Senso-ji Temple and Neon Shinjuku Streets
Tokyo is the largest metropolitan area on earth, yet it is remarkably easy for visitors to navigate.
Zermatt, Switzerland
Zermatt Switzerland Matterhorn Views and Five Lakes Walk
Zermatt sits at the head of the Mattertal valley in the canton of Valais, at the foot of the Matterhorn, the mountain th...
Cinque Terre, Italy
Cinque Terre Italy Five Villages Trails and Pesto
Cinque Terre, the Five Lands, is a stretch of rugged Ligurian coastline in northwest Italy where five villages cling to...
Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow Scotland Kelvingrove Necropolis and West End Food
Glasgow is Scotland's largest city, a friendly, creative place with grand Victorian streets, free world class museums, a...
Golden Circle, Iceland
Golden Circle Iceland Thingvellir Geysir and Gullfoss
The Golden Circle is a loop of roughly three hundred kilometres that runs from Reykjavik into the southern uplands of Ic...
Islamabad, Pakistan
Islamabad Pakistan Faisal Mosque Margalla Hills and Saidpur
Islamabad is one of the few capitals in the world planned from scratch with a mountain range as its northern wall.Ad
Loire Valley, France
Loire Valley France Chambord Chenonceau and Local Wine
For centuries, French kings and their courts lived along the Loire, building palaces, hunting lodges and pleasure garden...
Penang, Malaysia
Penang Malaysia Hawker Stalls Street Murals and Kek Lok Si
Penang is a Malaysian state made up of an island off the northwest coast of the peninsula and a strip of the mainland ac...
Rome, Italy
Rome Italy Colosseum Vatican Trastevere and Trevi Fountain
Rome is a city where you can stand in a piazza and see nearly two thousand years of history at once: an ancient column,...
Sicily, Italy
Sicily Italy Greek Temples Mount Etna and Taormina
Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean and one of the richest in history.
Skardu, Pakistan
Skardu Pakistan Deosai Plains and Kachura Lakes
Skardu is the main town of Baltistan, a high, dry region in Gilgit-Baltistan where the Indus River widens into a valley...
Tulum, Mexico