Must-SeeWhere to Go in July
602 places at their best in July, plus 9 festivals and seasons worth timing a trip around.
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Calgary Stampede
Alberta
Ten days of rodeo, chuckwagon races and cowboy hats, in July, on the edge of the Rockies.
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Palio di Siena
Tuscany
A wild bareback horse race around Siena's main square, every July and August.
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San Fermín
Navarre
Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, in July. It's controversial and dangerous.
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Tour de France
All over France
Cycling's great race, in July. Watch it free from a mountain roadside.
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At Their Best in July
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Angel Falls and Canaima
The world's highest waterfall, nearly 3,000 feet, falling from a tabletop mountain. Reached by plane and canoe.
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Alberta
Canada's first national park, where turquoise glacial lakes sit below the Rockies. Lake Louise and Moraine Lake are the great views.
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Britain's highest peak above Fort William, near Scotland's most dramatic valley.
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Must-SeeBerchtesgaden and the Eagle's Nest
Königssee's fjord-like lake, and Hitler's mountaintop retreat.
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Must-SeeBergen and Flåm Railway
Wooden Bryggen wharf, and the world's steepest standard-gauge train.
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Bermuda's South Shore
Pink-sand coves and turquoise water, with the old British town of St. George's.
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Must-SeeBorobudur and Yogyakarta
The world's largest Buddhist temple, with Prambanan's Hindu spires.
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Must-SeeBwindi Impenetrable Forest
Trek to see endangered mountain gorillas, an unforgettable encounter. Permits are limited.
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Must-SeeCapri and the Blue Grotto
A glamorous limestone island in the Bay of Naples, with its glowing sea cave.
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Must-SeeChamonix and Mont Blanc
Haute-Savoie
The birthplace of alpine sport, with a dizzying cable car up the Aiguille du Midi.
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Must-SeeChicago
Illinois
The birthplace of the skyscraper, on the shore of a lake the size of a sea.
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Ciudad Perdida
The Lost City: a four-day jungle trek to the terraces of the Tairona people.
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Must-SeeCliffs of Moher and the Burren
County Clare
Huge sea cliffs, and a strange limestone landscape.
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Must-SeeCrater Lake National Park
Oregon
America's deepest lake, startlingly blue, in the caldera of a volcano that erupted 7,700 years ago.
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Must-SeeCusco and the Sacred Valley
Cusco Region
The old Inca capital, with colonial churches on Inca walls, Sacsayhuamán, and the terraces of Ollantaytambo and Pisac.
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Must-SeeDenali National Park
Alaska
North America's highest peak over six million acres of wilderness, with grizzlies, moose and caribou along the park road.
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Scotland
A castle on a volcanic rock, the Royal Mile and the world's largest arts festival.
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Glowing Supertrees and a cloud forest under glass.
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Must-SeeGlacier National Park
Montana
Jagged peaks and turquoise lakes along the Going-to-the-Sun Road.
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Must-SeeGobi Desert
Singing dunes, flaming cliffs full of dinosaur fossils, and two-humped camels.
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Golden Circle and Reykjavík
Gullfoss, Geysir and Þingvellir, close to the world's northernmost capital.
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Must-SeeGrand Teton National Park
Wyoming
Jagged peaks rising straight out of lakes and meadows, just south of Yellowstone and easy to pair with it.
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Must-SeeGreat Barrier Reef
Queensland
The world's largest coral system, reached from Cairns and the Whitsundays.
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Must-SeeGrindelwald and the Eiger
An Alpine village right under the Eiger's notorious north face.
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Must-SeeIlulissat Icefjord
Giant icebergs calve from one of the world's fastest glaciers and float past a small town.
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Inca Trail
Cusco Region
Four days on stone paths, by cloud-forest ruins, ending at the Sun Gate. Permits sell out months ahead.
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Must-SeeInside Passage
Alaska
Alaska's great cruise route, past glaciers, whales and fjords and through old gold rush towns, from Vancouver or Seattle.
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Interlaken and the Jungfrau
Bern
Waterfalls in Lauterbrunnen and Europe's highest railway station.
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Issyk-Kul and Karakol
A vast, high lake, with Karakol's trekking and Jeti-Ögüz's red rocks.
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Alberta
One of the world's great drives, 144 miles of glaciers and peaks between Lake Louise and Jasper.
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Houseboats on Dal Lake and Mughal gardens, with high-altitude skiing at Gulmarg.
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Alaska
Tidewater glaciers crash into the sea, watched by whales, puffins and sea lions, on boat tours from the little town of Seward.
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One of Africa's great parks, and easily self-drive, with luxury private reserves next door.
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Must-SeeLa Paz
A high city in a canyon, crossed by cable cars, with witches' markets and Death Road biking nearby.
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Must-SeeLake Garda
Italy's largest lake, with Sirmione's castle and Malcesine's cable car up Monte Baldo.
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Lake Titicaca
Puno
The world's highest navigable lake, with the floating reed islands of the Uros and Taquile's weavers.
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Must-SeeLauterbrunnen and Mürren
A valley of 72 waterfalls, with a car-free cliff-top village above it.
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Must-SeeLoch Ness
Scotland's deep, dark, monster-haunted loch, with Urquhart Castle on its shore.
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Must-SeeMaasai Mara
Big cats, and the wildebeest river crossings from about July to October.
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Must-SeeMachu Picchu
Cusco Region
The Inca citadel on a cloud-forest ridge, among the world's great sights. Timed tickets are limited.
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Must-SeeManaus and the Brazilian Amazon
Amazonas
Jungle lodges and river trips from a rubber-boom city with a famous opera house.
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Must-SeeMedellín
A city that remade itself, with its cable cars and the street art of Comuna 13.
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Must-SeeMontreal
Quebec
French-speaking, bohemian and full of food, from bagels to smoked meat, with an old port and huge summer festivals.
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A sawtooth mountain with a Benedictine monastery and its Black Madonna, near Barcelona.
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Must-SeeMount Fuji
Japan's perfect sacred cone, seen from Hakone and the Five Lakes, or climbed in summer.
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Africa's highest point, at 19,341 feet, a non-technical but tough climb.
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South Dakota
Four presidents carved into a granite mountain in South Dakota's Black Hills, with Badlands National Park nearby.
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New York
Three waterfalls on the Canadian border; the boat into the spray of Horseshoe Falls is the one thing not to skip.
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The Canadian side gets the full-on view of the Horseshoe Falls.
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Must-SeeNorwegian Fjords
Geiranger and Nærøyfjord are among the world's great views, by boat or road.
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Washington
Three parks in one: glacier-capped mountains, the mossy Hoh Rain Forest and wild Pacific beaches with sea stacks.
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Mato Grosso
The world's largest tropical wetland, and the best place to see jaguars.
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Provence
Avignon's papal palace, Roman Arles and Orange, the Pont du Gard, and purple lavender fields in early summer.
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Must-SeeQuebec City
Quebec
North America's only walled city north of Mexico, with stone streets, a castle-like hotel and a real French feel.
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The best-preserved colonial center in Latin America, high in the Andes, close to the Equator line.
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Must-SeeRedwood National and State Parks
California
The tallest trees on Earth, some over 370 feet, in misty groves along California's far north coast.
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Must-SeeReykjavík
The world's northernmost capital, with Hallgrímskirkja, music and thermal pools.
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Must-SeeRiga
The world's greatest concentration of Art Nouveau buildings, and a huge market.
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Must-SeeRing of Kerry and Killarney
County Kerry
A classic coastal loop, by Killarney's lakes and the Dingle Peninsula.
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Must-SeeSabah and Mount Kinabalu
Southeast Asia's great climb, with Sepilok's orangutans and Sipadan diving.
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Salar de Uyuni
A blinding white salt flat, which turns into a giant mirror after rain, on a multi-day jeep tour to colored lagoons.
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Salento and the Coffee Region
Green farms, Salento's colored houses, and the giant wax palms of Cocora Valley.
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Basque Country
A perfect bay, with Europe's best pintxos bars, and the Guggenheim's titanium curves nearby.
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Scottish Highlands and Skye
Scotland
Glencoe, Loch Ness and the wild Isle of Skye, on the North Coast 500.
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A palace on a giant rock, with Dambulla's cave temple and Polonnaruwa's ruins.
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Singapore
Gardens by the Bay's Supertrees, Marina Bay Sands, and UNESCO-listed hawker culture.
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Skógafoss, black sand at Vík, and icebergs drifting to Diamond Beach.
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French bakeries and euros, a short ferry from Canada, with a Prohibition-era past.
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Must-SeeThe Cotswolds
Honey-stone villages, like Bibury and Bourton-on-the-Water, in rolling countryside.
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Must-SeeThe Dolomites
South Tyrol and Veneto
Pale, jagged peaks that glow at sunset, with superb hiking and skiing and a Tyrolean feel.
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Three limestone towers, the emblem of the Dolomites, circled by a famous day walk.
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Northern Territory
A giant, sacred red rock in the desert, sacred to the Anangu people. Don't climb it; it's banned.
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British Columbia
A glassy city between mountains and the sea, with Stanley Park, fine Asian food and skiing an hour away.
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The Smoke That Thunders, the world's largest sheet of falling water, on the Zambezi.
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Dian Fossey's mountain gorillas, on steep bamboo slopes. Permits are costly.
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Wyoming, Montana and Idaho
Half the world's geysers, plus bison and wolves you can actually see.
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Must-SeeYogyakarta and Prambanan
Java's cultural capital, with towering Hindu temples and Mount Merapi nearby.
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Must-SeeZermatt and the Matterhorn
Valais
The world's most famous peak, above a car-free village.
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Worth a DetourAbisko and Kebnekaise
The King's Trail, Sweden's highest peak and some of Earth's best aurora skies.
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Worth a DetourAcadia National Park
Maine
Granite coast, carriage roads and Cadillac Mountain on Maine's Mount Desert Island.
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Worth a DetourAletsch Glacier
The Alps' longest glacier, in full view from Eggishorn and Bettmerhorn.
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Worth a DetourAntelope Canyon
Arizona
A narrow slot canyon of swirling, glowing sandstone near Page, Arizona. Entry is only with a Navajo-led tour.
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Worth a DetourArequipa and Colca Canyon
Arequipa
A white-stone city under a volcano, near one of the world's deepest canyons and its soaring condors.
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Worth a DetourAstoria and Cannon Beach
Oregon
Oregon's northern coast, with the huge Haystack Rock, Lewis and Clark's winter camp, and The Goonies' town.
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Río Negro
A Swiss-style town of chocolate shops on a big lake, with the Seven Lakes Road.
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Worth a DetourBay of Fundy
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
The world's highest tides, rising as much as 50 feet, with Hopewell Rocks and whale watching.
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Worth a DetourBlack Forest
Baden-Württemberg
Dark hills and cake, Baden-Baden's spas, and Freiburg.
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Worth a DetourBoundary Waters Canoe Area
Minnesota
Over a million acres of lakes and forests with no roads, explored by canoe. America's most visited wilderness.
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Worth a DetourBrittany and Saint-Malo
A walled corsair port, wild coasts, and Carnac's thousands of standing stones.
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Worth a DetourCabot Trail
Nova Scotia
A coastal loop around Cape Breton Island, with Celtic music and fall color.
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Caño Cristales
The river of five colors, red with plants at its best from about July to November.
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Worth a DetourCape Cod
Massachusetts
Dune-backed Atlantic beaches, lighthouses and lobster rolls, the classic New England summer.
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Worth a DetourCarlsbad Caverns National Park
New Mexico
A vast limestone Big Room, one of the largest in North America, reached by trail or elevator, and hundreds of thousands of bats at dusk.
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Worth a DetourChoquequirao
Cusco Region
Machu Picchu's sister, far larger and almost empty, reached only by a multi-day trek.
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Worth a DetourChurchill
Manitoba
The polar bear capital of the world, reached by plane or train, with beluga whales in summer.
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Worth a DetourCody and the Buffalo Bill Center
Wyoming
Buffalo Bill's town: five great museums under one roof, a nightly summer rodeo, and the eastern road to Yellowstone.
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Worth a DetourColorado Springs
Colorado
Red-rock towers at Garden of the Gods, a cog railway to the top of Pikes Peak, the Air Force Academy chapel and the US Olympic museum.
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Worth a DetourCooperstown
New York
The Baseball Hall of Fame, in a lovely lake village. A pilgrimage for any fan, and pleasant even if you're not one.
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Worth a DetourCopacabana and Isla del Sol
The Bolivian side of Titicaca and the sacred island of the Inca.
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Worth a DetourCornwall
England
Sandy coves and fishing villages, St. Ives and the Eden Project, with Tintagel's legends.
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Worth a DetourCortina d'Ampezzo
The Dolomites' most glamorous resort, a Winter Olympics host in 1956 and 2026.
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Rugged coves, medieval Girona, and Dalí's theater-museum.
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Cotopaxi and the Avenue of Volcanoes
Cotopaxi
A perfect snow cone, and the crater lake of Quilotoa.
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Worth a DetourCourmayeur and the Aosta Valley
Italy's side of Mont Blanc, with the Skyway cable car, castles and Roman Aosta.
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Cuenca
A handsome colonial city of blue domes, near the Inca site of Ingapirca and El Cajas's lakes.
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Worth a DetourDa Nang and the Golden Bridge
A walkway held by giant stone hands, in the hills above a beach city.
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A bike ride from high Andes to jungle on the world's most notorious road.
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Worth a DetourDevils Tower
Wyoming
America's first national monument, a fluted rock tower sacred to the Lakota and other Plains tribes, ringed by an easy trail where prayer cloths hang in the pines.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Cape Cod: a thin peninsula of cherry orchards, lighthouses, fish boils and small harbor towns.
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Minnesota
A steep port city on Lake Superior, the start of a stunning road of waterfalls, lighthouses and agate beaches.
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A vast glacial amphitheater, and an observatory on a peak with a cable car.
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Galway and Connemara
County Galway
A lively music town, wild bogs and the Aran Islands.
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Worth a DetourGeneva, Lausanne and Montreux
Lake Geneva's Alps views, with the romantic Chillon Castle, and Lavaux vineyards.
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Worth a DetourGlendalough and Wicklow Mountains
A monastic round tower in a lake valley, an hour from Dublin.
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Worth a DetourGoing-to-the-Sun Road
Montana
An engineering marvel through Glacier National Park, climbing to 6,646-foot Logan Pass above waterfalls and hanging valleys.
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Newfoundland
Newfoundland's fjords and bare mantle rock, and the only confirmed Viking settlement in North America.
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Áncash
The tropics' highest range, with the Santa Cruz Trek and the blue Laguna 69.
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Balearic Islands
The world's clubbing capital, with quiet coves and a walled old town.
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Worth a DetourIndiana Dunes National Park
Indiana
Tall sand dunes and Lake Michigan beaches, with the Chicago skyline in the distance, an hour from the Loop by train.
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Worth a DetourIquitos and the Peruvian Amazon
Loreto
The largest city you can't reach by road, and the gateway to Amazon lodges and river trips.
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Worth a DetourIsle Royale National Park
Michigan
A wild island in Lake Superior with moose and wolves, reached only by boat or seaplane. One of the least visited parks.
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Wyoming
A Western town of elk-antler arches, at the gateway to Grand Teton and Yellowstone, with some of America's steepest skiing.
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A steam train over the curving viaduct seen in the Harry Potter films.
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The Home of the Giants, with Norway's highest peaks and the Besseggen ridge.
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Alaska
The only US state capital you can't reach by road, between mountains and the sea, with a glacier just out of town.
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Alaska
Brown bears catch leaping salmon at Brooks Falls, the star of Fat Bear Week, on a remote Alaskan peninsula reached only by floatplane.
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A medieval ski town, home of the Hahnenkamm, the world's most feared downhill race.
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Beach resorts, Koh Phangan's Full Moon Party, and cheap diving.
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Lombardy
Grand villas and small ferries on a lake below the Alps, with Bellagio at its center.
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Worth a DetourLake District
England
England's finest hills and lakes, the land of Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter.
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Palace islands with terraced gardens, on an Alpine lake shared with Switzerland.
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California and Nevada
A deep blue alpine lake ringed by peaks: beaches and hiking in summer, ski resorts in winter.
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Worth a DetourLandmannalaugar
Rhyolite mountains in every color, with hot springs, on the Laugavegur trail.
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Lençóis Maranhenses
Maranhão
White dunes with blue rainwater lagoons, from about June to September.
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Worth a DetourLittle Bighorn Battlefield
Montana
Where Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors destroyed Custer's 7th Cavalry in 1876. It's a solemn place on the open plains.
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Worth a DetourLoch Lomond and the Trossachs
Britain's largest lake, with Ben Lomond above it, close to Glasgow.
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Michigan
A car-free Victorian island in Lake Huron since 1898, with horse-drawn carriages, fudge and the Grand Hotel's 660-foot porch.
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Himalayan adventure base at the start of the high road to Spiti's cliff monasteries.
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Worth a DetourMauna Kea
Hawaii
Hawaiʻi's highest and most sacred mountain, a summit above the clouds with world-class observatories, unforgettable sunsets and some of the clearest night skies on Earth.
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Worth a DetourMount Kailash and Manasarovar
The holiest mountain in four religions, circled on foot by pilgrims.
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Worth a DetourMount Rainier National Park
Washington
A glacier-covered volcano with wildflower meadows in late summer, a day trip from Seattle.
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Worth a DetourMount Shasta
California
A lone snow-capped volcano held sacred by local tribes and a magnet for seekers of every kind, with alpine lakes, wildflower meadows and the springs of the Sacramento River.
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Washington
The volcano that blew its top in 1980, killing 57 people, with a huge crater and a recovering blast zone to see close up.
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A revolving cable car up to a glacier, above a monastery village.
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Macaques in hot springs, a 1998 Winter Olympics host, and big Alpine skiing.
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A high pasture beneath the world's ninth-highest mountain.
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Rhode Island
Gilded Age summer palaces of the Vanderbilts and Astors, a clifftop walk and a historic harbor full of yachts.
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Britain's first national park, with Chatsworth House and stone villages.
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Península Valdés
Chubut
Southern right whales, elephant seals and penguins, and orcas that beach themselves for prey.
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Worth a DetourPictured Rocks and the Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Painted sandstone cliffs above Lake Superior's clear water, best from a boat or kayak, in Michigan's wild north.
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Southern-summer skiing at South America's best-known Andes resorts.
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A tiny, painted harbor on the Italian Riviera, beloved of the yachting set.
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Once among the richest cities in the world, thanks to silver mined from the Cerro Rico. Mine tours are grim.
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Cusco Region
Mineral-striped slopes above 16,000 feet, a hard day trip from Cusco.
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Colorado
Trail Ridge Road climbs above the tree line to alpine tundra, two hours from Denver. Elk are everywhere in fall.
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Worth a DetourSan Juan Islands
Washington
Green islands in the Salish Sea, reached by ferry, with orca whale watching, kayaking and small friendly towns.
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Painted village houses and cheese, with the Aescher cliff inn nearby.
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Sardinia
Some of the Mediterranean's clearest water, with the stone towers of the Nuragic people.
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Worth a DetourSaxon Switzerland and the Bastei
Sandstone towers linked by a stone bridge, close to Dresden.
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California
Groves of giant sequoias, including General Sherman, the largest tree on Earth by volume.
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A chain of glacial lakes, with Rila's Musala, the Balkans' highest peak, nearby.
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A royal mountain resort with a fairy-tale palace, below the Bucegi peaks.
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County Kerry
A monastery on a sea rock. Seen in Star Wars. Boats are few and booked early.
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Iceland's most-photographed mountain and the Journey to the Center of the Earth glacier.
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Wales
Wales's highest mountains, with Conwy and Caernarfon castles.
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Australia's highest peak, and its ski fields at Thredbo and Perisher.
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Deep canyons beneath Monte Perdido, in Spain's oldest national park.
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St. George's and the Royal Naval Dockyard
A 1612 English town and a huge old naval fortress.
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Volcanic islands off Sicily. Watch Stromboli's eruptions at night from a boat.
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A dazzling white colonial capital, with dinosaur footprints on a quarry wall nearby.
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California
Highway 395 along the Sierra's wall, past the highest peak in the lower 48, Mono Lake's towers and Mammoth Lakes.
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New York
Long glacial lakes, gorges and waterfalls in upstate New York, with America's best Rieslings.
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North Dakota
Colorful North Dakota badlands where a grieving young Roosevelt ranched, with bison, wild horses and prairie dogs.
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British Columbia
Wild surf beaches and old-growth rainforest at the far end of Vancouver Island.
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Ontario
Canada's biggest and most diverse city, with the CN Tower, great museums, and neighborhoods from around the world.
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Slovenia's national symbol and highest peak, a climb every Slovene is said to make.
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A road of hairpins up a wall of mountains, by the Romsdalseggen ridge.
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Ladin villages under the jagged Seceda ridge, one of the Dolomites' great views.
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British Columbia
A tidy, flower-filled capital on Vancouver Island, famous for the Butchart Gardens and for whale watching.
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Minnesota
A water park on Minnesota's Canadian border, explored by boat, with houseboats, wolves and northern lights.
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The sets, costumes and props of the Harry Potter films.
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British Columbia
North America's largest ski resort, a scenic drive from Vancouver, with a mountain-to-mountain gondola.
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Emerald Lake and Takakkaw Falls, just over the divide from Banff.
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Stone villages and arched bridges, by one of the world's deepest gorges.
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The famous shipwreck cove below white cliffs, plus sea turtles.
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A lakeside town under a glacier, with skiing almost all year.
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A cathedral carved in a salt mine, 200 meters underground, near Bogotá.
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Ontario
Canoe country in the Ontario woods, with moose and wolf howls.
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The Tour de France's most famous climb, with 21 hairpins, above a sunny ski town.
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American Samoa
The only US national park south of the Equator: rainforest cliffs and coral reefs, in a living Samoan culture.
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Alaska
Alaska's biggest city, with mountains at the edge of town and roads and rails to Denali and the Kenai Fjords.
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Wisconsin
21 islands in Lake Superior, with sandstone sea caves and old lighthouses, off the pretty harbor town of Bayfield.
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Colorado
Colorado's best-known ski towns: Aspen's silver-mining Victorian streets and the much-photographed Maroon Bells, and Vail's huge Bavarian-style slopes.
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New Jersey
America's first boardwalk, casinos and saltwater taffy, on the long sandy Jersey Shore.
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Illinois
A lace-like white dome on the shore of Lake Michigan, the oldest surviving Bahá'í House of Worship in the world and open to people of every faith, north of Chicago.
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South Dakota
A lone mountain on the edge of the Black Hills, sacred to the Lakota and Cheyenne, where the summit trail passes prayer cloths left by those who come to fast and pray.
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Montana and Wyoming
A 68-mile road climbing to nearly 11,000 feet between Montana and Yellowstone, called the most beautiful drive in America by Charles Kuralt.
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Oregon
A sunny high-desert town with many breweries, skiing on Mt. Bachelor and volcanic lava fields, at the edge of the Cascades.
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New York
The field in the Catskills where the 1969 Woodstock festival took place, with a museum of the festival and the 1960s, about two hours from New York City.
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Rhode Island
A small island of stone walls, bluffs and Victorian hotels, a world away from Rhode Island's mainland.
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Montana
Montana's boom town: dinosaurs at the Museum of the Rockies, Big Sky's ski slopes and the gateway to Yellowstone.
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A planned 1960 capital shaped like an airplane, with Oscar Niemeyer's modernist buildings.
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New York
Half an hour from Niagara Falls, with Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin Martin House and the original Buffalo wings.
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Vermont
Vermont's small lakeside city: a walkable street, a bike path on the water, and Ben & Jerry's and the Shelburne Museum nearby.
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Hawaii
A replica of a thousand-year-old temple in Japan, set against the green cliffs of the Koʻolau Mountains on Oʻahu, with koi ponds and a peace bell to ring.
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Bahia
Tabletop mountains, caves with blue water, and Fumaça Falls.
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Colorado
Twin rock spires above an Ancestral Puebloan great house in southwest Colorado, where the moon rises between the pinnacles every 18.6 years.
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Virginia
An undeveloped barrier-island beach where wild ponies graze in the marsh.
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Ohio
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Lake Erie and a top art museum that's free to enter.
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A remote, liveaboard-only island famous for schools of hammerhead sharks.
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Idaho
A lakefront resort town in the Idaho Panhandle, with a floating golf green and a 25-mile lake.
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Europe's highest city, known for skiing and the World Economic Forum.
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South Dakota
An 1876 gold rush town, where Wild Bill Hickok was shot at the poker table holding aces and eights, in the Black Hills.
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Colorado
The Mile High City and gateway to the Rockies, with Red Rocks Amphitheatre in the foothills.
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Michigan
Motown, a revived downtown and the Henry Ford museum of American innovation in nearby Dearborn.
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Alberta
A great dinosaur museum and a hoodoo-filled badlands, with Dinosaur Provincial Park nearby.
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Iowa
Eastern Iowa's best: the cornfield movie diamond, the Mississippi at Dubuque, and the old communal Amana Colonies.
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Alaska
Alaska's interior city, one of the world's best places to see the northern lights, with hot springs and a midnight sun in summer.
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New York
A star-shaped stone fort on Lake Champlain, taken by Ethan Allen in 1775, whose cannons freed Boston.
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Bavaria
Germany's highest peak, reached by cogwheel train and cable car.
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Alaska
America's two most remote national parks, far above the Arctic Circle, with no roads, no trails and migrating caribou.
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The Apennines' highest peak, above the vast Campo Imperatore plateau.
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Nevada
A remote park with a glacier-carved 13,000-foot peak, ancient bristlecone pines, marble caves and very dark skies.
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Guatapé
A candy-colored town, and a giant rock with 740 steps, on a day trip from Medellín.
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Nova Scotia
A salty Atlantic port with a star-shaped fort, the Titanic's graves, and a famous nearby lighthouse.
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Missouri
Mark Twain's boyhood town on the Mississippi, the real-life St. Petersburg of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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A forest park you cross by white bicycle, leading to Van Gogh paintings.
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Alaska
The end of the road on the Kenai Peninsula, with a 4-mile spit, halibut fishing and fly-in bear viewing.
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The Danube's great gorge, with Lepenski Vir's prehistoric village.
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England's holiday island, with the Needles and Queen Victoria's Osborne House.
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Ceará
A sandy-street beach village among the dunes, famous for kitesurfing.
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Painted wooden mission churches in the lowlands, with baroque music still performed.
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Mainland Europe's largest glacier, with blue arms reaching valley floors.
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England
Durdle Door, and 185 million years of cliffs, with fossil-hunting on the beach.
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Maine
Maine's highest peak, the northern end of the Appalachian Trail, in a huge roadless wilderness.
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Ohio
The first temple of the Latter Day Saint movement, dedicated in 1836 in Kirtland, Ohio, east of Cleveland, and now shown on guided tours.
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Amazonas
The walled mountaintop city of the Chachapoya, reached by cable car, near the tall Gocta Falls.
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Alaska
Bears on the beach, two volcanoes and turquoise lakes, a short bush-plane flight from Anchorage.
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New York
The village that twice hosted the Winter Olympics, and the 'Miracle on Ice', in New York's vast Adirondack Mountains.
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California
A little Yellowstone in Northern California, with steaming vents, mud pots and all four kinds of volcano.
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Washington
A Bavarian-themed village in the Cascades, with lots of Christmas lights and great river and rock hikes nearby.
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Community-run Amazon lodges in one of the world's most diverse parks.
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Wisconsin
A lively college and capital city on an isthmus between lakes, with a great farmers market, cheese and Frank Lloyd Wright's home nearby.
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One of the most biodiverse places on Earth, from cloud forest down to the jungle.
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Colorado
A thrilling drive through Colorado's San Juan Mountains, with steep cliffs, no guardrails and old mining towns.
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Wisconsin
Breweries on Lake Michigan, the Harley-Davidson Museum and a winged art museum by Calatrava.
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Minnesota
A city of lakes on the Mississippi, the Walker Art Center, and the Mall of America next door.
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Massachusetts
Two summer islands off Cape Cod: cobblestones and gray-shingled whaling houses on Nantucket, and gingerbread cottages on the Vineyard.
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Illinois
The Mississippi River town built by Joseph Smith's followers, once one of the largest in Illinois.
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West Virginia
A Hare Krishna community in the hills of West Virginia, home to the ornate Palace of Gold and its rose gardens, built by hand by devotees in the 1970s.
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Washington
'The American Alps': jagged peaks, over 300 glaciers and the startling turquoise of Diablo Lake, along a spectacular summer highway.
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Maryland
Maryland's classic beach town, with a three-mile boardwalk, crab feasts and Assateague's wild ponies next door.
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Ontario
Canada's capital, with a Gothic Parliament and great national museums, and the Rideau Canal, which turns into a skating rink.
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White sand beaches and the Callanish Stones, at Scotland's Atlantic edge.
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Canyons and Croatia's biggest mountain range, above the Adriatic.
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Utah
A silver-mining town turned ski resort, long home of the Sundance Film Festival, with North America's largest ski area, 35 minutes from Salt Lake City.
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Asturias and Cantabria
Limestone peaks close to the sea in green northern Spain.
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Oregon
Food carts, Powell's City of Books and rose gardens, with the Columbia River Gorge an hour away.
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Maine
A small port with one of America's best food scenes per capita, cobbled Old Port streets and the most photographed lighthouse in Maine.
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Prince Edward Island
Red-sand beaches and farms, home of Anne of Green Gables and of lobster suppers.
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Rhode Island
A compact college city with a strong food scene and summer WaterFire bonfires on its rivers, near Newport's mansions.
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A chain of extinct volcanoes in central France, climbed by rack railway.
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Delaware
The "nation's summer capital" beach towns: Rehoboth's boardwalk, historic Lewes, and tax-free shopping.
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A fine museum of real Viking longships, with a royal cathedral.
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New Mexico
Where something crashed on a ranch in 1947. Alien-shaped streetlights, a UFO museum and a playful love of the unexplained.
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Utah
Temple Square, ski resorts within an hour and the gateway to Utah's national parks.
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Mysterious statues over 1,000 years old, with Tierradentro's tombs nearby.
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New York
The 1777 American victory that brought France into the war, often called the Revolution's turning point.
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Nebraska
The great landmarks of the Oregon Trail, and a Stonehenge built of old cars, on the Nebraska High Plains.
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Wisconsin
A hilltop Catholic shrine above La Crosse, Wisconsin, with a stone church, a rosary walk, Stations of the Cross and a candle chapel on 100 wooded acres.
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Alaska
The old capital of Russian America, with onion domes, Tlingit totems and bears in a rescue center.
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Michigan
Towering sand dunes 450 feet above Lake Michigan's clear blue water, among Michigan's lovely wine-country towns.
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A Black Sea resort, and the mountains of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
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Idaho
America's first destination ski resort, where Hemingway lived, and the wild Sawtooth Range nearby.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts's green western hills, with Norman Rockwell, Tanglewood, MASS MoCA and Edith Wharton's house.
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New York
Long Island's wealthy beach towns, with white sand and mansions, ending at Montauk's old lighthouse.
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Washington and Idaho
Rolling wheat hills that glow green and gold in late spring and summer, a favorite of landscape photographers.
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New York
Nearly 2,000 islands in the St. Lawrence River, with a heartbreaking castle and the namesake salad dressing.
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Yukon
A preserved Klondike gold-rush town, under the midnight sun or the northern lights.
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Rhode Island
The oldest synagogue building in the United States, dedicated in 1763 in Newport, and the congregation to which George Washington wrote his famous letter on religious freedom.
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Alaska
A fishing port in a ring of snowy mountains, with a stunning road in, and Columbia Glacier's great ice cruises.
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South Dakota
Two of the world's longest caves under the Black Hills, with bison on the prairie overhead.
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Wisconsin Dells
Wisconsin
The 'Waterpark Capital of the World', a giant family resort town set among sculpted sandstone cliffs on the Wisconsin River.
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Alaska
America's largest national park, bigger than Switzerland, with an abandoned copper-mining town you can tour, and huge glaciers.
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Stone walls, waterfalls and heather, with the Brontës' Haworth nearby.
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