The best deal in the world for mature travelers is the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) lifetime visitor pass for $80. It’s good at some 2,000 national parks, monuments, and federal recreation areas. Here’s more about the appeal of our National Park Service.
Taos Pueblo is a UNESCO World Heritage site in New Mexico. The photogenic village was the subject of Ansel Adams’ first book.
A list of National Parks and Monuments by state, with links to our stories about parks we’ve visited. There are 61 U.S. National Parks, including two in American Samoa and the United States Virgin Islands.
Barcelona has an endless array of things to see and do. Here are some suggestions of where to start.
Japan is home to 23 UNESCO World Heritage sites: 19 cultural and four natural sites. The most famous, of course, is Mount Fuji, which also is the most photographed place … Read more
Cycling all the way across Britain and then north into Scotland is not for the meek. But the scenery and history are worth the effort.
The Palau de la Musica and the Hospital of Sant Pau, designed in the Catalan Modernisme style by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, are Unesco World Heritage sites.
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, their buildings and plant collections, combine to form a unique testimony to 18th Century landscape garden design. Garden art and botanical science utilized here were subsequently diffused around the world.
The assemblage of historical buildings at Greenwich represents the height of Neo Classical English architecture and English maritime achievement. Greenwich is designated a Unesco World Heritage site.
Calling the Swedish site of Birka a Viking village requires a lot of imagination, because, well, unless you’re an archeologist willing to do some digging, there’s not much to see in Birka.