USA
Enormous and staggeringly diverse, America harbors an astounding collection of natural and cultural wonders, from teeming city streets to mountains, plains and forests covering vast swaths of the continent.
Enormous and staggeringly diverse, America harbors an astounding collection of natural and cultural wonders, from teeming city streets to mountains, plains and forests covering vast swaths of the continent.
Sighs alternate with gawps at the white-dipped mountains, mist-cloaked seascapes and epic northern roadways.
Jungles, deserts; teeming cities, one-street pueblos; fiesta fireworks, Frida’s angst: Mexico conjures up so many contradictory images.
The moment you arrive in the Golden State, you may suspect you’ve been cast as the ingenue in a road-trip movie.
Ever since Ponce de León, Florida has cast a sensual spell over travelers, and its surreal landscape, heavenly beaches and prehistoric beasts still quicken the pulse and inflame the imagination.
You’re likely to return from New England with an album of images: white-clapboard churches on well-manicured greens; red-brick buildings on leafy college campuses; granite mountains majestically ablaze with fall colors; paint-peeling fishing boats...
Welcome to iconic America, the luscious backdrop of movie Westerns and the red-rock land of limitless horizons.
'As for New York City, it is a place apart.
Here’s how it’s going to go down.
The history is legendary – Plymouth, where the Pilgrims landed; Boston, where the first shots of the American Revolution rang out; and Nantucket, whose whaling ships swarmed the oceans.
More than any other part of the country, the South has an identity all of its own – a sense of regional pride, a musical way of speaking, a complicated political history and a shared culture that cuts across state lines.
Canada’s third-largest province; bigger than any US state except Alaska; more than four times the area of the UK: it’s not hard to find superlatives about the vastness of British Columbia.
Québec may be bigger, British Columbia may have more mountains, and Alberta is certainly flexing its economic biceps at the moment, but when it comes to culture, cuisine and sophistication, Ontario wins hands down.
Big, beautiful and wildly bountiful.
Chicago dominates the state with its sky-high architecture and superlative museums, restaurants and music clubs.
Various vices can come to mind when you free-associate on Nevada, but that’s only a fraction of the story.
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