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Day of the Dead
All over Mexico
Altars, marigolds and all-night vigils in cemeteries. Oaxaca and Pátzcuaro are the classic places to see it.
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Where to Go in November
497 places at their best in November, plus 6 festivals and seasons worth timing a trip around.
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German Christmas Markets
All over Germany
Mulled wine and carved toys, from late November.
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Worth a DetourMacy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
New York
Thanksgiving morning, the fourth Thursday of November
Giant balloons float through Manhattan from Central Park West to Herald Square. Stake out a spot early, or watch the balloons inflate the night before.
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Thousands of lanterns over Chiang Mai, usually in November.
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New York
First Sunday in November
The world's largest marathon, running through all five boroughs on the first Sunday in November.
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Must-SeeAbu Simbel
Ramesses II's colossal rock temples, moved piece by piece to escape a rising lake.
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Ajanta and Ellora Caves
Maharashtra
Rock-cut temples and Buddhist paintings, with the monumental Kailasa Temple.
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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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Siem Reap
The world's largest religious monument, with faces of Bayon and jungle-clad Ta Prohm.
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Classic trekking routes and a lakeside town below soaring peaks.
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Icebergs and penguin colonies, on the classic expedition from Ushuaia.
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A grand European-feeling city of tango, steak, cafés and Recoleta Cemetery, where Evita lies.
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Islamic Cairo's mosques, Khan el-Khalili bazaar, and the Grand Egyptian Museum's Tutankhamun treasures.
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Hannibal's city, by a blue-and-white village above the sea.
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A moated old town of temples, with ethical elephant sanctuaries and Yi Peng lanterns.
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A cobbled Portuguese-Spanish colonial town, a short ferry from Buenos Aires.
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Andalusia
The great Mezquita's forest of striped arches, with a cathedral at its heart.
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Tasmania's emblem, above Dove Lake, at the start of the Overland Track.
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One of the hottest places on Earth, with bright sulfur springs and a lava lake.
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Delhi
Humayun's Tomb, Qutb Minar, the Red Fort and Old Delhi's chaotic food streets.
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Rapa Nui
The giant stone moai of Rapa Nui, on one of the most remote islands on Earth.
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Santa Cruz
Argentina's trekking capital, under the sharp granite spires of Mount Fitz Roy.
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A big king penguin colony at Volunteer Point, with albatross on Saunders Island.
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Punjab
Sikhism's shining holiest shrine, feeding 100,000 people a day for free.
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A memorial to the Atlantic slave trade, off a lively capital.
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Thousands of limestone islands in emerald water, by overnight junk boat.
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The Peace Park and Atomic Dome, with the floating torii gate of Miyajima nearby.
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Hong Kong
The Star Ferry, Victoria Peak's view, and dim sum, with Lantau's Big Buddha.
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Paraná and Misiones
Hundreds of waterfalls on the Brazil-Argentina border, wider than Niagara and taller too. See both sides.
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Sacred to three faiths: the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock.
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Beautiful red-stone ruins of the Jesuit missions, nearly empty of visitors.
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One of the world's most powerful single-drop waterfalls, usually with no crowds, on a day flight.
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Kerala
Quiet houseboats through palm-lined canals, with Munnar's tea hills nearby.
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Japan's old capital, with Fushimi Inari's gates, geisha, Kinkaku-ji and quiet gardens.
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One of the world's largest lagoons, with a heart-shaped mangrove.
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California
Hollywood, the Getty, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, and a food scene from every corner of the Pacific.
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Tutankhamun's tomb, Karnak's giant columns and Hatshepsut's temple.
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Amazonas
Jungle lodges and river trips from a rubber-boom city with a famous opera house.
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Le Morne mountain above a lagoon with an optical illusion waterfall.
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One of the world's great cities, built on Aztec ruins, with Frida Kahlo's house, a stunning anthropology museum, and tacos everywhere.
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A relaxed capital, with a long seaside promenade and steak in the Mercado del Puerto.
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Japan's perfect sacred cone, seen from Hakone and the Five Lakes, or climbed in summer.
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Ica
Giant figures drawn in the desert about 2,000 years ago, best seen from a small plane.
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Oaxaca
Mexico's food capital, with mole and mezcal, a beautiful colonial center, and the Zapotec hilltop city of Monte Albán.
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Paramaribo
A wooden Dutch colonial center, where a mosque and a synagogue stand side by side.
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Santa Cruz
A wall of ice that cracks and crashes into a lake near El Calafate. Walkways bring you close.
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The ceremonial capital of Darius, and Shiraz's gardens and pink mosque.
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The rose-red city carved in rock, with the Treasury at the end of a narrow gorge.
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Bhutan's most beautiful dzong, and a capital with no traffic lights.
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The last surviving Wonder of the Ancient World, with the Sphinx, on Cairo's edge.
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Antofagasta
The world's driest desert, with geysers, salt flats, flamingos and superb night skies.
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Andalusia
Andalusia's soul: the huge cathedral and Giralda, the Royal Alcázar and flamenco.
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The British Raj's summer capital, reached by a narrow-gauge railway through over 100 tunnels.
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New South Wales
The Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach, and the Blue Mountains nearby.
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Night markets, Taipei 101, and the National Palace Museum's imperial treasures.
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Uttar Pradesh
The white marble tomb Shah Jahan built for his wife, beautiful at dawn, with Agra Fort nearby.
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Texas
The mission where Texas fought for independence, four more UNESCO-listed missions and the River Walk.
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The world's largest city, from Shibuya's crossing to quiet shrines, with the best food anywhere.
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Torres del Paine
Magallanes
Patagonia's great park, with granite towers, glaciers, and the W Trek. Book refuges long ahead.
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Uttar Pradesh
One of the world's oldest living cities, with its ghats on the Ganges and fire ceremonies at dusk.
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Veneto
A city of canals and palaces on a lagoon, with St. Mark's and the Grand Canal.
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Red sand and Bedouin camps, the desert of Lawrence of Arabia and The Martian.
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Florida
Disney's four parks, Universal and SeaWorld in one city, the theme-park capital of the world.
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Texas
The live-music capital, with Texas barbecue, swimming holes and a million bats under a bridge at dusk in summer.
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Texas
Desert, mountains and the Rio Grande canyons on the Mexican border, with some of the darkest night skies in the country.
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A hippie village among dunes, with no roads, a lighthouse and sea lions.
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Worth a DetourCajun Country
Louisiana
Lafayette, Atchafalaya swamp tours, Tabasco's island home and zydeco on Saturday mornings. Louisiana's other great region.
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Worth a DetourCanary Islands
Spain's Atlantic islands, with Teide volcano and Lanzarote's black lava fields.
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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 DetourCharleston
South Carolina
Pastel houses, church steeples and some of the South's best cooking.
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Giant pandas and fiery Sichuan food, with the Leshan Giant Buddha nearby.
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Shore temples and rock carvings, near South India's largest city.
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Manitoba
The polar bear capital of the world, reached by plane or train, with beluga whales in summer.
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Worth a DetourCopper Canyon
Chihuahua
A canyon system bigger than the Grand Canyon, crossed on the famous El Chepe train.
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Worth a DetourCumberland Island
Georgia
Georgia's largest barrier island: 17 miles of empty beach, wild horses and the ruins of a Carnegie mansion, reached only by ferry.
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West Bengal and Sikkim
Tea gardens, a toy train and Kangchenjunga views.
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Worth a DetourDeath Valley National Park
California and Nevada
Salt flats, dunes and colored canyons in the hottest, lowest place in North America. Go between November and March.
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Worth a DetourDharamshala and McLeod Ganj
The Dalai Lama's home in exile, with Tibetan monasteries under the Himalayas.
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Worth a DetourDisneyland
California
Walt Disney's original park in Anaheim, an hour from central Los Angeles.
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Worth a DetourFatehpur Sikri
Akbar's perfectly preserved red sandstone capital, abandoned soon after it was built.
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Worth a DetourFernando de Noronha
A protected island chain of spinner dolphins and Brazil's finest beaches. Visitor numbers are limited.
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Jalisco
The home of mariachi, and of Tequila, the town and the blue agave landscape around it.
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Worth a DetourGuanajuato
Guanajuato
A colorful silver-mining city in a ravine, with roads running in tunnels under its streets.
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Worth a DetourHarriet Tubman's Eastern Shore
Maryland
The tidal marshes where Harriet Tubman was enslaved and escaped, returning again and again to lead others to freedom.
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Worth a DetourHebron and Jericho
The Cave of the Patriarchs, and one of the world's oldest cities.
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Worth a DetourHierve el Agua
Mineral cliffs like frozen waterfalls, with natural pools near Oaxaca.
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Arizona and Nevada
A 1930s concrete giant across the Colorado River, 45 minutes from Las Vegas.
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One of the world's biggest hydroelectric dams, on the Brazilian border, near Iguazu.
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Worth a DetourIwokrama and the Rupununi
Rainforest and savanna with jaguars, giant otters and Indigenous-run lodges.
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Worth a DetourJaisalmer
Rajasthan
A golden sandstone living fort, with camel safaris into the Thar.
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California
Spiky Joshua trees and giant boulder piles where two deserts meet, near Palm Springs.
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Kanazawa and Shirakawa-go
A fine garden city, and thatched farmhouses in the mountains.
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The Death Railway bridge, with Erawan's waterfalls nearby.
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Worth a DetourKennedy Space Center
Florida
Where Apollo launched and rockets still do: a Saturn V, the shuttle Atlantis and, with luck, a launch.
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Worth a DetourKhajuraho
Madhya Pradesh
Temples covered in exquisite, and famously erotic, carvings.
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Worth a DetourKolkata
West Bengal
India's cultural capital, with the Victoria Memorial and a fantastic Durga Puja.
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Black lava fields and vineyards, with César Manrique's architecture.
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South America's food capital, with ceviche, a colonial center, and clifftop Miraflores.
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Worth a DetourMadurai and Tamil Temples
Tamil Nadu
Towering carved gateways, with Thanjavur and Mahabalipuram nearby.
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Worth a DetourMálaga and the Costa del Sol
Picasso's birthplace, with the Alcazaba, and Spain's busiest sunshine coast.
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Mendoza
Mendoza
Malbec country, with vineyards below the snowy Andes and Aconcagua nearby.
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Worth a DetourMontgomery
Alabama
Where Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and where the Selma marchers ended, with America's most powerful memorial to the victims of lynching.
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Worth a DetourMount Sinai and St. Catherine's
Climb for sunrise, then see the ancient Christian monastery.
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Maharashtra
India's dream city, with the Gateway of India, Elephanta Caves and Art Deco.
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Worth a DetourOkefenokee Swamp
Georgia
A vast blackwater wilderness of cypress, lilies and alligators, named Georgia's first World Heritage Site in 2026.
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Minas Gerais
A gold-rush town of baroque churches, by the sculptor Aleijadinho. Inhotim's art park is nearby.
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Worth a DetourParaty and Ilha Grande
Rio de Janeiro
A cobbled colonial port and a car-free jungle island, between Rio and São Paulo.
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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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Maya Bay, of The Beach, is limited and sometimes closed for recovery.
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A riverside capital, with a Royal Palace and the grim Killing Fields and Tuol Sleng.
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Worth a DetourPlymouth
Massachusetts
Where the Pilgrims landed in 1620: a replica Mayflower, a living museum of their village and of the Wampanoag people.
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California
A wild peninsula an hour north of San Francisco, with a cliff-side lighthouse, tule elk, and a tunnel of cypress trees.
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Puebla
A tile-covered colonial city, the home of mole poblano and of the huge pyramid at Cholula.
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Punta del Este
South America's glamorous summer resort, with the giant hand on the sand.
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Worth a DetourRanthambore and India's Tigers
Rajasthan
One of the best chances to see a wild tiger, among ruins.
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World-class coral reefs, with Dahab's Blue Hole and Hurghada.
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The prison where Nelson Mandela spent 18 years, a ferry ride from Cape Town.
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Salta and Jujuy
The colored Hill of Seven Colors and white-walled towns in the northwest.
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Bahia
The heart of Afro-Brazilian culture, with a colorful old town, capoeira and drums.
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Worth a DetourSan Antonio Missions
Texas
Four 18th-century Spanish missions, still active parishes, strung along the river south of the Alamo, with which they form a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mission San José is the grandest.
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Worth a DetourSan Diego
California
Mild sunny weather all year, Balboa Park and its famous zoo, and a string of laid-back beach towns.
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Guanajuato
A pink-spired colonial town of cobblestones and art galleries, much loved by American retirees.
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South America's giant, with superb food and art and huge Japanese and Italian communities.
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The Step Pyramid, the first in the world, with the Bent and Red Pyramids at Dahshur.
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Arizona
Red rock buttes, easy hikes and a reputation as a spiritual retreat, two hours from the Grand Canyon.
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Texas
NASA's visitor center, with a tram to the historic Apollo Mission Control and a full Saturn V rocket.
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Florida
America's oldest city, founded by Spain in 1565, with a coquina stone fort and narrow old streets.
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New Jersey
The largest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere, hand-carved stone on a vast scale, opened in 2023 in Robbinsville, New Jersey, between New York and Philadelphia.
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La Libertad
The largest adobe city in the Americas, and the painted Moche temples of the Sun and Moon.
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Tierra del Fuego
The world's southernmost city, for the Beagle Channel and penguins, and the main port for Antarctica.
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Valparaíso
A hilly port of painted houses and old funiculars, with Neruda's La Sebastiana.
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Mississippi
The 47-day siege that gave the Union the Mississippi River, with over a thousand monuments and a salvaged ironclad.
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The sets, costumes and props of the Harry Potter films.
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Worth a DetourWhite Sands National Park
New Mexico
The world's largest gypsum dunefield, 275 square miles of dazzling white waves in New Mexico's desert, great for sledding.
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Canals and old towns, with Tiger Leaping Gorge and Shangri-La nearby.
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Georgia
Georgia's tallest waterfall, tumbling 729 feet down a mountainside, and the traditional start of the Appalachian Trail.
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Georgia
The Civil War's most notorious prison camp, now home to the National Prisoner of War Museum.
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Georgia
America's great college music town, which gave the world R.E.M. and the B-52s, with a lovely old university.
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The Philippines' summer capital, with Sagada's hanging coffins beyond.
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South Carolina
A lovely antebellum town, with Penn Center's Gullah story and Reconstruction history in the Sea Islands.
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Alabama
Where the civil rights struggle's turning point took place in 1963, a former steel city with a giant iron statue on its hill and a great food scene.
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Arizona
Two old copper-mining towns turned artists' colonies, clinging to Arizona's hillsides.
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Florida
A park that's 95% water, just south of Miami, with coral reefs, mangroves and an old shipwreck trail.
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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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Missouri
One of the largest collections of mosaics in the world, about 41 million pieces of glass covering domes and walls, in St. Louis's Central West End.
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Arizona
A modernist Catholic chapel built straight into Sedona's red rock in 1956, with a great cross-shaped window looking out over the buttes.
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California
Philip Johnson's Crystal Cathedral, a church of more than 10,000 panes of glass, reborn as the Catholic cathedral of Orange County, near Disneyland.
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South Carolina
The largest old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the Southeast, with some of the tallest trees in the East.
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Florida
A mysterious rock garden of huge coral carvings, built alone by a tiny Latvian immigrant for his lost love, with no one watching.
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Córdoba
A lively university city, with a Jesuit block and estates that are a World Heritage Site.
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Texas
The Texas Gulf's biggest beach city, with a WWII carrier, and the world's longest undeveloped barrier island.
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South Carolina
Two Patriot victories in the Carolina backcountry that turned the war's Southern campaign and led to Yorktown.
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Thousands of hand stencils, 9,000 years old, in a Patagonian canyon.
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Texas
The JFK story at Dealey Plaza, a large downtown arts district and Tex-Mex, with Fort Worth next door.
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A Scottish-founded town, near albatross and penguin colonies.
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Texas
A big border city in the desert, in the Franklin Mountains, with the warmest welcome, a tram to the top, and a mission trail older than Texas.
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Santa Catarina
An island city of 40-plus beaches, Brazil's surf and party favorite in summer.
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Florida
'Venice of America', with 165 miles of canals, broad beaches, the world's yachting capital and Everglades airboats on its doorstep.
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Texas
Old West cowboy culture, with a longhorn cattle drive down Exchange Avenue, rodeos and honky-tonks.
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Virginia
The Potomac crashes through a rocky gorge 15 miles from the White House, the great natural sight of the Washington area.
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Texas
Texas's highest peak, in a fossil reef from an ancient sea, with brilliant fall color in McKittrick Canyon.
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Arkansas
America's old spa town, where a row of grand bathhouses is the national park. You can still take the waters.
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Texas
A huge museum district, Space Center Houston nearby and one of the most varied food scenes in the country.
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Corrientes
Capybaras and caimans in a huge marsh, where jaguars are being brought back.
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San Juan and La Rioja
Moon Valley's rock forms, and some of the oldest dinosaur fossils anywhere.
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Florida
America's largest city by area, with a river, beaches, a surprising art museum and PGA golf at Sawgrass.
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Jericoacoara
Ceará
A sandy-street beach village among the dunes, famous for kitesurfing.
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India's oldest national park, with tigers in the Himalayan foothills.
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A volcanic island of lagoons, forest and seabirds, off New South Wales.
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Texas
A remote West Texas art town, with Donald Judd's minimalist installations, mysterious lights and the much-photographed Prada Marfa.
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Arizona
The "White Dove of the Desert", a gleaming 18th-century Spanish mission on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation south of Tucson, still serving its community.
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California
A huge, empty desert between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, with singing sand dunes, volcanic cones and a restored train depot.
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Arizona
A five-story cliff dwelling, set 100 feet up a limestone wall, built by the Sinagua about 900 years ago.
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Michoacán
Pink stone colonial grandeur, and an island lake town famed for its Day of the Dead.
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Florida
Elegant Gulf beach towns, with a famous pier, and Sanibel's seashells and its wildlife refuge up the coast.
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Louisiana
The oldest town in the Louisiana Purchase, with Creole plantations on Cane River, meat pies, and a famed Christmas festival.
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A huge desert crater with stargazing, and Eilat's Red Sea beyond.
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Missouri
The oldest cathedral west of the Mississippi, finished in 1834 and still standing beside the Gateway Arch.
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Florida
Florida's old-money island, with Henry Flagler's Gilded Age mansion, and very fancy shops on Worth Avenue.
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California
A desert playground of mid-century modern homes, poolside hotels and a tram up into the mountains.
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Ica
Sea lions and penguins by boat, with a desert reserve on the south coast.
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Arizona
Desert resorts, the Desert Botanical Garden and a base for Sedona and the Grand Canyon.
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California
Spires of old volcanic rock, talus caves with bats, and a chance to see California condors, two hours from San Francisco.
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Plains and the Jimmy Carter Sites
Georgia
The tiny peanut-farming town that produced President Jimmy Carter, who came back to live here and is buried here.
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Louisiana
Earthworks built by hunter-gatherers about 3,400 years ago, one of the oldest great monuments in the Americas.
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Georgia
"Georgia's Little Grand Canyon": pink, orange and purple gullies, 150 feet deep, cut by poor farming in the 1800s.
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Magallanes
A windy Strait of Magellan port, with a big Magellanic penguin colony nearby.
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Georgia
The modest Georgia cottage where Franklin Roosevelt came to swim, and where he died in 1945 while sitting for a portrait.
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Florida
Florida's culture coast: John Ringling's circus museum, an art museum and a quartz-white beach, on the Gulf.
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A huge single-drop waterfall in the Kingdom in the Sky.
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Texas
The former book depository overlooking Dealey Plaza, telling the story of President Kennedy's assassination.
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Georgia
A two-mile canyon nearly 1,000 feet deep, with a swinging bridge over its falls, in the far northeast of Georgia.
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Florida
Gulf Coast beaches, the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg and Busch Gardens.
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Arkansas
A soaring wood-and-glass chapel in the Ozark woods near Eureka Springs, Arkansas, designed by E. Fay Jones and among the finest American buildings of its century.
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One of the world's most-visited holy sites, on a hilltop in Andhra Pradesh.
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Arizona
'The Town Too Tough to Die': site of the 1881 gunfight at the O.K. Corral between the Earps, Doc Holliday and the Clantons.
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Arizona
A desert city between the two halves of Saguaro National Park, known for its Sonoran-Mexican food.
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Texas
Chip and Joanna Gaines's Magnolia Market, an ancient mammoth site, Dr Pepper, and the Texas Ranger museum.
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Mexico City
Colorful boats and mariachis on the Aztec canals in the south of Mexico City.
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