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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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957 places at their best in October, plus 6 festivals and seasons worth timing a trip around.
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Must-SeeNew England Fall Foliage
New England
Late September to late October, north to south
Whole hillsides of red and gold in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Drive the back roads and stay in a small-town inn.
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Bavaria
The world's largest beer festival, in Munich, from mid-September.
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New Mexico
Nine days in early October
Hundreds of hot-air balloons rise together at dawn. Arrive in the dark for the mass ascension.
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Ajanta and Ellora Caves
Maharashtra
Rock-cut temples and Buddhist paintings, with the monumental Kailasa Temple.
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Andalusia
The Moors' astonishing hilltop palace, with free tapas in the town below. Book far ahead.
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A leafy city by mountains, near Kazakhstan's grand canyon and Big Almaty Lake.
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Campania
Pastel villages clinging to cliffs above the sea, with Positano, Ravello and the Isle of Capri.
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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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Classic trekking routes and a lakeside town below soaring peaks.
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Utah
More than 2,000 natural stone arches, with Canyonlands next door and Moab as an adventure base.
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The Parthenon above a chaotic modern city, with a superb museum, and tavernas of Plaka.
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The niches where giant Buddhas stood until 2001, and blue Band-e Amir lakes.
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Catalonia
Gaudí's Sagrada Família, the Gothic Quarter and the beach, in Catalonia's lively capital.
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A walled Venetian town at the head of a fjord-like bay. Climb 1,350 steps for the view.
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The Brandenburg Gate, the Wall and Museum Island, in Europe's edgy, creative capital.
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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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California
Highway 1 clings to cliffs above the Pacific for 90 miles, with redwood groves and coves along the way.
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North Carolina
America's largest private home, George Vanderbilt's 250-room French-style chateau in the Blue Ridge Mountains, near Asheville.
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Massachusetts
Walkable, historic and full of firsts, from the Freedom Trail to Harvard.
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A Saxon medieval city under forested Carpathian slopes, with its Black Church.
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Grand Parliament, ruin bars and steaming Széchenyi Baths, on both sides of the Danube.
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A grand European-feeling city of tango, steak, cafés and Recoleta Cemetery, where Evita lies.
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Camino de Santiago
Galicia
Europe's great pilgrimage walk, ending at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela.
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Hannibal's city, by a blue-and-white village above the sea.
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Liguria
Five colorful fishing villages on the Ligurian cliffs, linked by trails and a train.
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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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The ancient oracle's mountainside sanctuary, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus.
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Marble streets inside huge sea walls. Walk the ramparts early, ahead of the cruise crowds.
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Must-SeeEaster Island
Rapa Nui
The giant stone moai of Rapa Nui, on one of the most remote islands on Earth.
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One of the world's steepest railways, down to a narrow fjord.
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Tuscany
The cradle of the Renaissance, with the Uffizi, Michelangelo's David and Brunelleschi's dome.
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Northern Ireland
40,000 basalt columns on the Antrim coast, with Titanic Belfast's museum nearby.
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Punjab
Sikhism's shining holiest shrine, feeding 100,000 people a day for free.
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Queensland
The world's largest coral system, reached from Cairns and the Whitsundays.
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North Carolina and Tennessee
America's most visited national park: misty ridges and old-growth forest.
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Thousands of miles of wall on mountain ridges. Mutianyu and Jinshanling, from Beijing, are the best.
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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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Hawaii
Waikiki's famous beach, Diamond Head and the Pearl Harbor memorial, on Hawaii's busiest island.
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Arizona
The Colorado River's famous 270-degree bend seen from a 1,000-foot cliff, near the red-walled boating paradise of Lake Powell.
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Hunza and the Karakoram Highway
One of the world's wildest roads, with peaks at Hunza.
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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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Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Grand Bazaar and the Bosphorus, on two continents.
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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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Kaieteur Falls
One of the world's most powerful single-drop waterfalls, usually with no crowds, on a day flight.
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Houseboats on Dal Lake and Mughal gardens, with high-altitude skiing at Gulmarg.
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Kerala Backwaters
Kerala
Quiet houseboats through palm-lined canals, with Munnar's tea hills nearby.
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One of Africa's great parks, and easily self-drive, with luxury private reserves next door.
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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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Old trams on steep hills, tiled houses, Belém and fado, with custard tarts on every corner.
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Loire Valley
Hundreds of Renaissance chateaux, with Chambord and Chenonceau, among vineyards.
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England
One of the world's great cities, with the Tower, Westminster, free museums and the West End.
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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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The grotto where Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary, one of Catholicism's great pilgrimages.
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Big cats, and the wildebeest river crossings from about July to October.
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The Prado, Reina Sofía and Thyssen, a royal palace and great late-night tapas.
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Amazonas
Jungle lodges and river trips from a rubber-boom city with a famous opera house.
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France's oldest city, with white limestone sea inlets on its edge.
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Ancient cave homes carved into a ravine, among the world's oldest lived-in towns.
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Must-SeeMauritius's Beaches
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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Normandy
A medieval abbey rising from a tidal bay on the Normandy coast.
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Must-SeeMonument Valley
Arizona and Utah
The red sandstone buttes of every Western movie, on Navajo land; see them at sunrise or with a Navajo guide.
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A sacred mountain, and the world's largest stone Buddha, carved into a riverside cliff.
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Europe's tallest active volcano, with lava fields and craters above Sicily's coast.
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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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Bavaria
Bavaria's capital, with beer halls, great art, and Dachau's memorial nearby.
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Agamemnon's citadel, a perfect ancient theater, and a lovely Venetian port town.
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California
America's most famous wine country, with vineyards and fine dining an hour north of San Francisco.
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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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The Canadian side gets the full-on view of the Horseshoe Falls.
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Normandy
Omaha Beach, the American cemetery and the Bayeux Tapestry.
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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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England
Dreaming spires and old colleges, with honey-stone villages close by, and Blenheim Palace.
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California
California's Highway 1, one of the world's great road trips: redwoods, cliffs, sea lions and surf from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
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Île-de-France
Louis XIV's staggering palace and gardens, with the Hall of Mirrors, a short train from Paris.
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Mato Grosso
The world's largest tropical wetland, and the best place to see jaguars.
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Paramaribo
A wooden Dutch colonial center, where a mosque and a synagogue stand side by side.
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Île-de-France
The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre-Dame and a thousand cafés. The world's most visited city, and it earns it.
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Must-SeePerito Moreno Glacier
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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Pennsylvania
Where the Declaration and the Constitution were signed, with a great food scene around it.
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Campania
A Roman city frozen by Vesuvius in 79 AD, near chaotic, wonderful Naples, the home of pizza.
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A granite riverside city, famous for port wine lodges, and a tiled train station.
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A largely intact old city, with Charles Bridge, the castle, and an astronomical clock.
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Bhutan's most beautiful dzong, and a capital with no traffic lights.
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California
The tallest trees on Earth, some over 370 feet, in misty groves along California's far north coast.
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The most spectacular city setting anywhere, with Sugarloaf, Christ the Redeemer, Copacabana and Ipanema.
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Hawaii
Maui's famous rain-forest road: 620 curves and 59 bridges past waterfalls, black sand and bamboo forests.
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Lazio
The Colosseum, the Pantheon and 3,000 years of history, with some of Europe's best street life.
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California
Hills, fog, the Golden Gate and one of the country's best food cities.
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Antofagasta
The world's driest desert, with geysers, salt flats, flamingos and superb night skies.
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Santorini
Whitewashed villages on a sunken volcano's rim, with Oia's famous sunsets. Very crowded in summer.
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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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Split and Hvar
A city living inside a Roman palace, with island-hopping to party Hvar.
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England
The mysterious stone circle, with the far larger Avebury ring nearby.
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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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A preserved merchant town in the Japanese Alps, with morning markets and sake.
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Thousands of life-sized clay warriors, in the old Silk Road capital.
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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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Must-SeeThe French Riviera
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Nice, Cannes, Antibes and hill villages like Èze, along a glamorous blue coast.
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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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Tuscany
Rolling hills and hill towns, with Siena's shell-shaped square, San Gimignano's towers and Chianti.
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Vatican Museums and St. Peter's
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. Book the museums ahead.
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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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Monuments, the Capitol and the world's largest free museum complex, all on one great lawn.
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The world's oldest and largest lived-in castle, a short trip from London.
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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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Alsace
Half-timbered villages on a wine road, with Strasbourg's huge cathedral. Superb at Christmas.
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Worth a DetourAntietam National Battlefield
Maryland
The bloodiest single day in American history, on quiet Maryland farmland that still looks much as it did in 1862.
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North Carolina
An arty mountain city with Art Deco streets, excellent breweries, live street music and the Biltmore Estate next door.
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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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Worth a DetourBadlands National Park
South Dakota
Sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles in pink and tan layers, on South Dakota's prairie, with bison and bighorn sheep.
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Worth a DetourBatalha, Alcobaça and Tomar
Three great monasteries, including the Knights Templar's headquarters.
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Worth a DetourBelfast
The Titanic's birthplace, with the museum where it was built, and the Troubles' murals.
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Arkansas
Walmart's hometown, now home to one of America's great museums of American art, free in a wooded ravine.
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Virginia and North Carolina
America's favorite drive: 469 miles of mountain views along the crest of the Appalachians, without a stoplight or a billboard.
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Worth a DetourBologna and Emilia-Romagna
Emilia-Romagna
Italy's food capital: tagliatelle, Parma ham, balsamic vinegar and porticoes, with Ravenna's mosaics nearby.
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Nouvelle-Aquitaine
An elegant port city, in the world's most famous wine region.
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Worth a DetourBryce Canyon National Park
Utah
An amphitheater of orange rock spires called hoodoos, best from the rim at sunrise. Easy to pair with Zion.
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Great wines around Beaune, with its famous tiled hospital, and Vézelay's abbey.
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Nova Scotia
A coastal loop around Cape Breton Island, with Celtic music and fall color.
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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 DetourCambridge
England
Old colleges and King's College Chapel, with punting on the River Cam.
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The river of five colors, red with plants at its best from about July to November.
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Arizona
Sheer red canyon walls sheltering ancient cliff dwellings, and Navajo families who still farm the valley floor.
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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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New Mexico
The great ceremonial center of the Ancestral Puebloan world, with huge stone great houses in a remote desert canyon.
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Worth a DetourChannel Islands National Park
California
California's Galápagos: five wild islands off the coast, with sea caves, foxes and whales, reached only by boat.
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South Carolina
Pastel houses, church steeples and some of the South's best cooking.
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Worth a DetourChengdu and the Pandas
Giant pandas and fiery Sichuan food, with the Leshan Giant Buddha nearby.
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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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Cologne
North Rhine-Westphalia
A vast Gothic cathedral, with Roman remains and lively carnival.
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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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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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Chihuahua
A canyon system bigger than the Grand Canyon, crossed on the famous El Chepe train.
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A green Venetian island, with Zakynthos's famous Navagio Beach nearby.
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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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A bike ride from high Andes to jungle on the world's most notorious road.
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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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Tennessee
Dolly Parton's theme park in the Smokies, with mountain crafts, great coasters and live country and bluegrass music.
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Worth a DetourDoor County
Wisconsin
Wisconsin's Cape Cod: a thin peninsula of cherry orchards, lighthouses, fish boils and small harbor towns.
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Saxony
A rebuilt baroque city, with the Bastei's rock bridge nearby.
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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 protected island chain of spinner dolphins and Brazil's finest beaches. Visitor numbers are limited.
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Worth a DetourFlight 93 National Memorial
Pennsylvania
A quiet Pennsylvania field where passengers fought back on September 11, 2001, with a Tower of Voices and a wall of names.
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Pennsylvania
The Civil War's turning point, and the field where Lincoln gave his most famous speech.
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Gozo and the Blue Lagoon
A quieter island, with Ġgantija's temples older than Stonehenge, and a bright blue swimming spot.
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Worth a DetourGuadalajara and Tequila
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 DetourHadrian's Wall
The Roman Empire's northern frontier, striding over wild English hills.
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Worth a DetourHarpers Ferry
West Virginia
A preserved 19th-century town where two rivers meet, site of John Brown's raid and a stop on the Appalachian Trail.
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Maryland
The tidal marshes where Harriet Tubman was enslaved and escaped, returning again and again to lead others to freedom.
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Hawaii
Active volcanoes in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, black-sand beaches and manta-ray night snorkeling.
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California
Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst's lavish 165-room hilltop palace, with a Roman-style pool and zebras on the hillside below.
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The Cave of the Patriarchs, and one of the world's oldest cities.
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Baden-Württemberg
A romantic red-sandstone castle above Germany's oldest university.
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Pompeii's smaller neighbor, better preserved, with wooden beams and upper floors.
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Oregon
America's first scenic highway, built in 1913, through a waterfall-lined gorge just east of Portland.
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Worth a DetourHistoric Triangle
Virginia
Jamestown, Williamsburg and Yorktown: where colonial America began and where the Revolution ended.
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Arizona and Nevada
A 1930s concrete giant across the Colorado River, 45 minutes from Las Vegas.
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Alabama
Rocket City: home of the Saturn V and Space Camp, with a real Saturn V rocket on display.
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One of the world's biggest hydroelectric dams, on the Brazilian border, near Iguazu.
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Rainforest and savanna with jaguars, giant otters and Indigenous-run lodges.
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Rajasthan
A golden sandstone living fort, with camel safaris into the Thar.
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Georgia
Marshy Georgia islands with Driftwood Beach, the old millionaires' club on Jekyll and St. Simons' lighthouse and oaks.
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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 Holy Roman Emperor's castle, for his crown jewels, near Prague.
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Hawaii
Hawaii's greenest, wildest island: the Na Pali cliffs, Waimea Canyon and quiet beaches.
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Himalayan temples at the heart of Hinduism's Char Dham pilgrimage.
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Worth a DetourKentucky Bourbon Trail
Kentucky
Tour the rickhouses and tasting rooms of Kentucky, source of about 95 percent of the world's bourbon, among horse farms and limestone springs.
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Worth a DetourKhajuraho
Madhya Pradesh
Temples covered in exquisite, and famously erotic, carvings.
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West Bengal
India's cultural capital, with the Victoria Memorial and a fantastic Durga Puja.
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Kutná Hora
A chapel decorated with 40,000 human skeletons, and a silver-town cathedral.
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Black lava fields and vineyards, with César Manrique's architecture.
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Massachusetts
Where the American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, and where Thoreau, Emerson and Louisa May Alcott later lived.
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Over 100,000 Buddhas carved along a river, with the Shaolin Temple nearby.
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Pennsylvania and Delaware
The du Ponts' country: America's greatest garden, Winterthur's vast decorative arts collection, and the Wyeths' art.
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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
France's food capital, with Roman theaters, old silk-weavers' passages and cozy bouchons.
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Picasso's birthplace, with the Alcazaba, and Spain's busiest sunshine coast.
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Mallorca
Balearic Islands
Hidden coves, the Tramuntana Mountains and Palma's Gothic cathedral.
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Worth a DetourMammoth Cave National Park
Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system, with over 400 miles mapped beneath Kentucky's hills, a World Heritage Site.
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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 DetourMemphis and Graceland
Tennessee
Elvis's Graceland, the blues on Beale Street and the National Civil Rights Museum.
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Mendoza
Mendoza
Malbec country, with vineyards below the snowy Andes and Aconcagua nearby.
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Worth a DetourMesa Verde National Park
Colorado
Whole villages built into cliff alcoves by Ancestral Puebloans 800 years ago. Ranger tours take you inside.
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Lombardy
Italy's fashion and business capital, with a marble cathedral and Leonardo's Last Supper.
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Utah
Red-rock adventure capital and the base for Arches and Canyonlands, with Jeep trails, mountain biking and river rafting on the Colorado.
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California
A world-class aquarium, the 17-Mile Drive past Pebble Beach and a fairy-tale village, at the north end of Big Sur.
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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 DetourMoselle and Eltz Castle
A fairy-tale castle in a hidden valley, above steep vineyard river bends.
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Climb for sunrise, then see the ancient Christian monastery.
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The volcano that buried Pompeii. Walk to the crater rim for the Bay of Naples.
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Georgia
A vast blackwater wilderness of cypress, lilies and alligators, named Georgia's first World Heritage Site in 2026.
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The first Olympic site, with Mycenae and Nafplio's Venetian old town nearby.
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A blue-hills steam railway up to a British-era hill station.
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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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North Carolina
A 120-mile chain of barrier islands, from the Wright brothers' dunes down to the shipwreck museum, the free ferry and sandy old Ocracoke.
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Sicily's chaotic capital of street food and markets, with Monreale's golden cathedral.
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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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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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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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A frescoed 14th-century monastery, with a young capital nearby.
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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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Basilicata and Puglia
Matera's ancient cave city, Alberobello's cone-roofed trulli, and whitewashed seaside towns.
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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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A limestone monolith guarding the Mediterranean, with Europe's only wild monkeys.
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Andalusia
A cliff-split town with its great bridge and old bullring, among whitewashed villages.
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Bavaria
A complete medieval walled town, on a road linking the Alps with Franconia.
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Worth a DetourRoute 66
Illinois to California
The old Chicago-to-Los Angeles highway; its best-kept stretch of diners and neon runs across Arizona.
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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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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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California
The 'American Riviera', with red-tiled roofs and a Spanish mission between mountains and the Pacific.
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New Mexico
Adobe buildings, galleries on Canyon Road and New Mexico's green-chile cooking.
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The cathedral at the end of the Camino, said to hold the apostle James.
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South America's giant, with superb food and art and huge Japanese and Italian communities.
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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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Castile and León
A giant Roman aqueduct and fairy-tale castle, an easy trip from Madrid.
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California
Groves of giant sequoias, including General Sherman, the largest tree on Earth by volume.
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Virginia
Skyline Drive runs 105 miles along the Blue Ridge, with waterfalls and summit views just off the road.
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Mainland Spain's highest mountains, with white villages on their southern slopes.
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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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St. George's and the Royal Naval Dockyard
A 1612 English town and a huge old naval fortress.
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A huge pink cathedral, half-timbered Petite France, and the European Parliament.
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England
Shakespeare's birthplace, and his company's great theaters.
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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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New Mexico
A multi-story adobe village, continuously lived in for about 1,000 years by the Taos people, and a World Heritage Site.
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Utah
The heart of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, with the six-spired Salt Lake Temple, the domed Tabernacle and its famous choir, and free gardens and visitor centers.
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Worth a DetourThe Dordogne
Prehistoric paintings at Lascaux, medieval villages, and a slow river with castles.
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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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New York
America's first great landscape: FDR's home, Gilded Age mansions, Sleepy Hollow and Dia Beacon, an hour from New York.
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Mississippi
The birthplace of the blues: the flat cotton lands of Highway 61, with juke joints, the crossroads and a real sense of history.
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Worth a DetourTiger Leaping Gorge and Shangri-La
One of the world's deepest gorges, on the road to Tibetan Yunnan.
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A Renaissance water garden, and an emperor's vast retreat, near Rome.
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Castilla-La Mancha
The walled city of El Greco and three faiths, a day trip from Madrid.
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Italy's elegant first capital, with the Egyptian Museum, the Shroud and chocolate.
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Utah
An 'All-American Road' through red rock country between Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef, with a narrow ridge called the Hogback.
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Pennsylvania
Where Washington's starving army wintered in 1777–78 and came out a real fighting force.
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Some of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere, at Agrigento in Sicily.
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Valparaíso
A hilly port of painted houses and old funiculars, with Neruda's La Sebastiana.
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The Western Front's great battlefields, with memorials, trenches and cemeteries.
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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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A baroque palace at the start of Germany's famous drive.
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Vast round earthen houses, and Gulangyu's car-free colonial island.
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Canals and old towns, with Tiger Leaping Gorge and Shangri-La nearby.
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New Mexico
Home of the Balloon Fiesta, with an old Spanish plaza, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and a long tram up Sandia Peak.
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Ontario
Canoe country in the Ontario woods, with moose and wolf howls.
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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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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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Maryland
A sailing town of brick streets on the Chesapeake Bay, home of the US Naval Academy.
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Virginia
The quiet Virginia village where Lee surrendered to Grant in April 1865 and the Civil War began to end.
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Umbria
The hill town of St. Francis, and its great frescoed basilica, with Orvieto and Perugia nearby.
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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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Georgia
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthplace and church, the Georgia Aquarium and World of Coca-Cola.
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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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Maryland
The Inner Harbor, the National Aquarium, Fort McHenry and Maryland crab cakes.
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Utah
Red-rock mesas full of ancient dwellings and rock art, sacred to many tribes, with three giant stone bridges nearby. Four Corners is close.
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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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Colorado
An adobe trading post on the Santa Fe Trail, and, not far away, the site of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre.
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Pennsylvania
An 18th-century Moravian settlement that's now a World Heritage Site, and the old rust-belt steel town around it.
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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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Colorado
A narrow, sheer canyon so deep and dark that parts of it see just minutes of sun a day.
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Winston Churchill's birthplace, and England's grandest baroque house.
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Colorado
A lively university town at the foot of the Flatirons, with some of America's best trails right off Main Street.
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Missouri
A theater-packed Ozarks town of country music, comedians and the Silver Dollar City theme park, among lakes and forested hills.
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England's lively seaside city, with a pier and the fantastical Royal Pavilion.
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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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One of Europe's oldest cities, by the home of sherry and dancing horses.
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The relaxed Caribbean coast, with a distinct Afro-Caribbean culture.
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Utah
Vast canyons carved by the Colorado and Green rivers, with Mesa Arch framing the sunrise, in Utah near Moab.
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Utah
A 100-mile wrinkle in the Earth's crust, with red cliffs, Fremont rock art and old Mormon orchards where you can pick fruit.
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Wales
The Welsh capital's Victorian fantasy castle, with Brecon Beacons nearby.
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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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The Sistine Chapel of cave art. Visitors see an exact replica beside the cave.
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Bahia
Tabletop mountains, caves with blue water, and Fumaça Falls.
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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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North Carolina
A banking city with the NASCAR Hall of Fame and the U.S. National Whitewater Center.
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Virginia
Jefferson's hilltop home and university, surrounded by Virginia wine country.
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Perhaps the finest Gothic cathedral, with its original blue stained glass.
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Tennessee
A revived river city between mountains, with the steep Incline Railway, Ruby Falls and a great freshwater aquarium.
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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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Ohio
An Ohio River city with the Underground Railroad Freedom Center and chili served over spaghetti.
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A remote, liveaboard-only island famous for schools of hammerhead sharks.
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Ohio
Ohio's capital, with brick-lined German Village, the Short North arts district and Ohio State.
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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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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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The caves that hold some of our oldest ancestors, near Johannesburg.
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Idaho
A huge black lava sea with cinder cones and caves in Idaho. Apollo astronauts trained here.
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Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee
The pass through the Appalachians used by Daniel Boone and some 300,000 settlers on their way into the American interior.
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Georgia
America's first big gold rush town and an unlikely Bavarian village, in the North Georgia mountains.
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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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Ohio
The world's largest military aviation museum, free, in the hometown of the Wright brothers.
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Utah and Colorado
A wall of about 1,500 dinosaur bones you can touch, and wild river canyons on the Colorado border.
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Kansas
The Wild West's wickedest town, and the great Flint Hills, the last of the tallgrass prairie that once covered the plains.
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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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Iowa
About 200 Native mounds, many shaped like bears and birds, high on the bluffs above the Mississippi.
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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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New Mexico
An adobe chapel in the hills north of Santa Fe whose "holy dirt" draws pilgrims from far and wide, many walking for days to arrive on Good Friday.
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Arkansas
A Victorian spa town in the Ozarks, with winding streets, hanging hotels and a famous stone chapel nearby.
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Drive to the north face of Everest, by the world's highest monastery.
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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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Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, built right over a waterfall in the Pennsylvania woods.
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Arizona
A pine-forest mountain town on Route 66, gateway to the Grand Canyon, where Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory.
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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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Texas
Old West cowboy culture, with a longhorn cattle drive down Exchange Avenue, rodeos and honky-tonks.
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Virginia
Four major battles in eighteen months, among them Chancellorsville and the Wilderness, around a handsome colonial town.
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Illinois
A beautifully preserved lead-mining town in Illinois's hilly northwest corner, and home of Ulysses S. Grant.
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Texas
A Gulf island of Victorian mansions, a Pleasure Pier and the story of the deadliest natural disaster in US history, the 1900 hurricane.
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Scotland's biggest city, with Mackintosh's architecture and a great music scene.
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Utah
Where the transcontinental railroad was joined in 1869, a remote spot in the Utah desert with working replica locomotives.
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California
A Gothic cathedral on San Francisco's Nob Hill with gilded doors cast from Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise and two labyrinths, one inside and one out, to walk in quiet.
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Utah
A vast, remote land of slot canyons, cliffs and fossils between Bryce and Lake Powell, on Scenic Byway 12.
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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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Missouri
Mark Twain's boyhood town on the Mississippi, the real-life St. Petersburg of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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Ohio
Geometric earthworks built about 2,000 years ago in Ohio, aligned with the moon. World Heritage since 2023.
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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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Indiana
Home of the Indy 500 at the Motor Speedway, with a compact, walkable downtown.
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Ischigualasto and Talampaya
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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Ceará
A sandy-street beach village among the dunes, famous for kitesurfing.
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New Hampshire
New England's best fall drive: 34 miles through New Hampshire's White Mountains, without a single gas station or hotel.
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Missouri
Barbecue, jazz in the 18th and Vine district and the National WWI Museum.
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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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Pennsylvania
Rolling farmland where Amish families still farm with horses and travel by buggy.
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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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Kentucky and Indiana
The log cabin Lincoln's said to have been born in, kept inside a marble temple, and the Indiana farm where he grew up.
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Arkansas
Where nine Black students integrated Central High School in 1957, with Bill Clinton's presidential library and the Arkansas River running through town.
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England
The Beatles' city, and football's great northern rivals.
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New Mexico
The secret wartime town where Oppenheimer's team built the bomb, beside Bandelier's cliff dwellings.
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Kentucky
Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, and the gateway to bourbon country.
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Georgia
Home of the Allman Brothers, Otis Redding and Little Richard, with 1,000-year-old mounds and a famous spring of cherry blossoms.
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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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Virginia
Where the Civil War's first major battle ended any hope of a short war, and where Stonewall Jackson got his name.
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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 best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth, nearly a mile wide, in the Arizona desert. Apollo astronauts trained here.
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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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California
The "Jewel of the Missions", with the ruins of a great stone church toppled by an 1812 earthquake, quiet gardens, and the return of the swallows celebrated each March.
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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
The "Queen of the Missions", the best loved of California's 21 Spanish missions, with twin bell towers, a rose garden in front and the Santa Ynez Mountains behind.
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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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A self-governing peninsula of 20 monasteries. Only men may land, but boats tour its coast.
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Virginia
George Washington's home on the Potomac, 15 miles south of the city named after him.
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South Carolina
South Carolina's two seaside favorites: Myrtle Beach's 60-mile Grand Strand of boardwalks and golf, and quieter, leafy Hilton Head Island.
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Connecticut
A New England seaport town, with a great maritime museum and the world's last wooden whaling ship.
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A Byzantine ghost city on a mountainside, near what's left of Sparta.
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Popular Himalayan hill stations, with Nainital set around its lake.
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Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee
A peaceful 444-mile drive from Mississippi to Nashville, along an ancient trail used by Native Americans and frontier boatmen.
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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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Virginia
A 215-foot limestone arch carved by Cedar Creek, once owned by Thomas Jefferson and carrying a highway across its top.
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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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A huge desert crater with stargazing, and Eilat's Red Sea beyond.
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Connecticut
Yale's Gothic campus, two great free art museums, and the coal-fired white clam pizza that America's pizza fans argue over.
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West Virginia
America's newest national park: a deep gorge with whitewater rafting and a famous arch bridge.
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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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Bavaria
A medieval center, the Nazi rally grounds, and Germany's top Christmas market.
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Tennessee
A secret city built in 1942 to enrich uranium for the atomic bomb, now part of the Manhattan Project park.
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Oklahoma
A prairie capital with a deeply moving memorial, a cowboy museum and a canal-side nightlife district, on Route 66.
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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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Massachusetts
Boston's oldest standing church, where two lanterns hung in the steeple warned of the British march on the night of Paul Revere's ride in 1775.
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Virginia
Cobbled colonial streets on the Potomac, George Washington's hometown, just minutes from DC by Metro.
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Nebraska
A river city with one of the world's top zoos, the College World Series, Warren Buffett's hometown, and an Old Market of cobbled streets.
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Oklahoma
The Osage Nation capital, setting of Killers of the Flower Moon, and home of The Pioneer Woman's mercantile.
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Mississippi
William Faulkner's literary college town, and the tiny two-room house where Elvis Presley was born.
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Eight centuries of French kings, and the room where Napoleon abdicated.
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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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Texas
America's second-largest canyon, 'the Grand Canyon of Texas', and a line of spray-painted Cadillacs, near Amarillo on Route 66.
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Ica
Sea lions and penguins by boat, with a desert reserve on the south coast.
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Florida
Florida's white-sand Panhandle, with the Blue Angels and an amazing free naval aviation museum.
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Arizona
Fallen 225-million-year-old trees turned to rainbow-colored stone, on a colorful badland plateau beside old Route 66.
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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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Pennsylvania
Three rivers, old inclines up Mount Washington for the view, and the Andy Warhol Museum.
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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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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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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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North Carolina
North Carolina's Research Triangle: free state museums in Raleigh and Duke University's gardens and chapel in Durham.
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Nevada
'The Biggest Little City in the World', a casino town on the Truckee River, near Lake Tahoe and Virginia City's mining past.
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Virginia
Virginia's capital on the James River, where Patrick Henry cried for liberty and the Confederacy had its capital, now a city of street art and great beer.
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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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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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California
California's capital, with Gold Rush-era Old Sacramento on the river and Lake Tahoe two hours east.
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Massachusetts
Site of the 1692 witch trials, now America's Halloween capital, with a superb maritime art museum.
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California
The heart of Silicon Valley, with the Computer History Museum, the Winchester Mystery House and Stanford 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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A huge single-drop waterfall in the Kingdom in the Sky.
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Ohio
The largest serpent effigy in the world, a quarter-mile earthwork snake uncoiling along a ridge in southern Ohio, built by ancient Native American peoples.
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Tennessee
The two-day battle in April 1862 that showed America how terrible the war would be.
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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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Texas
The former book depository overlooking Dealey Plaza, telling the story of President Kennedy's assassination.
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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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Indiana
The famous Catholic university, with its Golden Dome, Touchdown Jesus and a football stadium with a mystique.
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Texas
A long sandy Gulf island near Mexico, with warm water, a sea turtle rescue and famously busy spring-break crowds.
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Pennsylvania
The oldest Hindu temple in the United States built by Indian immigrants, modeled on the great temple at Tirupati and a pilgrimage for Hindus across the country, in Penn Hills near Pittsburgh.
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Missouri
The 630-foot Gateway Arch, free museums in Forest Park and the Budweiser brewery tour.
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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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Texas
Rolling hills west of Austin with German-founded towns like Fredericksburg, wineries and spring bluebonnets.
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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
New York City's old mountain escape, where Rip Van Winkle slept, with Kaaterskill Falls and the Woodstock festival site.
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New Jersey
The West Orange lab where Edison worked for 44 years, with his desk, early films and a replica of the first movie studio.
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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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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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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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Oklahoma
An oil-rich Art Deco city, and the site of the 1921 massacre of 'Black Wall Street', with a Bob Dylan Center and America's best new park.
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Bulgaria's seaside capital, with the world's oldest worked gold.
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Veneto
Romeo and Juliet's city, with summer opera in its Roman arena.
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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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Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Where Washington crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas night 1776 and turned the war around.
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Goethe's town, Luther's castle and a concentration camp memorial.
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New York
The US Military Academy on a Hudson River bluff, America's oldest service academy, whose graduates include Grant, Lee, Eisenhower and Patton.
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North Carolina
A handsome port on the Cape Fear River, with a battleship, a Riverwalk and beaches just over the bridge.
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Mexico City
Colorful boats and mariachis on the Aztec canals in the south of Mexico City.
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Giant cave Buddhas, and a temple pinned to a cliff.
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