Best Places to Visit in Europe | Asia | The Pacific | North America

2010 Paris Guide

Have you seen the Champs Elysees from the top of the Arc De Triomphe in Paris?

Paris is special anytime of the year, so what are you waiting for? See our newly revised online Guide the the Best Places in Paris and book your tickets today.

Our 2010 Paris Guide features additional attractions, great new photos of the City of Light and an extended section on daytrips.

We've made some changes in our page-navigation and our home page now lists 9 "photo-buttons" to take you to the best places to visit in Paris. In addition, we've included an index that you can use to connect to any of the many attractions we cover in Paris.

If you have never been to Paris, our new guide features a comprehensive section on Paris Travel Tips that will help you to travel the city like a pro

Vienna Guide

Was the Karlskirche in Vienna built after the failed seige by the Turks? Yes!

Our Guide to Vienna describes the best places to visit in Austria's Imperial City. Former seat of the Holy Roman Empire, Vienna features the Habsburg, Schönbrunn and Belvedere Palaces and other monuments built by the Habsburgs.

Vienna has spectacular Museums, dramatic churches, great cafes, fantastic shopping and wonderful music venues. Vienna is one of the outstanding destinations in Europe and we make it easy to tour with our new guide to the best places to visit in Vienna.

More Germany

Its Castle lured us in and the town sealed the deal. Read our new Guide to Heidelberg and Castle Heidelberg to explore one of the world's most famous university towns.

While you are at it, you might , also, enjoy the new Guide to Trier, Germany's oldest city, or our guide to the Mosel Valley, one of Germany's most beautiful areas.

Rome Guide

Our Rome Guide is proving mighty popular with our visitors.

We provide themes to guide your exploration of the Eternal City, including: Ancient Rome, Rome's Glorious Piazzas, Rome's Museums, Rome's Churches, Rome's Vatican City, Touring Tactics, Shopping and Day Trips.

Get to know the most fascinating places to visit around the world

Click our Destination Guide Homepage, to explore your vacation destination, or click below for the Best Places to Visit in:
Europe
Asia
South Pacific
North America

The fjords of Norway are a treat to visit Ever cruised one?

While cities and their mother-countries naturally go together, numerous travelers think of them as separate categories. Countries are often considered places that you want to sample and explore, running down all the popular places to understand the breadth of a country's culture. Cities, on the other hand, are often thought of as fascinating places requiring several days of detailed exploration to unravel the mysteries surrounding that special feeling you have when you are visiting one of the world's great cities. Well, which will it be? A country holiday, a city holiday, or a mixture of both? The fifteen countries and cities that most fascinate our visitors are shown to the right.

Is Australia in your future? Our online travel guides include the best places to visit in each country we recommend and describe why these locations are so fascinating. In addition, we provide detailed guides for many cities and touristic regions around the world.

Our site is decidedly Euro-centric, but we also cover the leading destinations in Asia, the Pacific, and North America. So, click Best Places to Visit to explore the world's leading vacation destinations.

Our online guides to places of interest to tourists are illustrated with fine photography and detailed maps showing the locations we recommend. We've done a lot of the work for you, but now comes the hard part - choosing the place to visit that's just right for you.

Have Questions About Travel?

Not sure what you might need to know to prepare for your next vacation? We've got you covered.

Our section covering Things Travelers Need To Know provides recommendations for planning your next vacation, as well as how to deal with issues that might crop up while you are traveling.

We provide tips on currency exchange, passports and visas, thoughts on buying the right luggage, ideas for packing clothes, hints for map use and useful tips on travel topics. All of our two-hundred-plus travel advice articles are direct and to the point. Click on one of the categories below to see the list of articles covered in that section.

Things Travelers Need To Know

Healthy Travel (Just a few tips to tune you up before your trip - and some to help while you are away)

Lodging (Choosing places to stay)

Luggage and Packing (Oh, all those new rules and restrictions)

Maps and Guidebooks (We know you know how to use maps - but maybe a refresher would be good)

Memories (You are taking a camera and .....?)

Money Abroad (Currency exchange, ATM use, money abroad)

Passports, Visas, Customs (You can't get there without them, so let's talk about official travel documents)

Safety and Security (Good advice for avoiding trouble on the road)

Shopping (Simple in concept, but there are some twists when shopping abroad)

Strategies for Touring (It sounds so easy, but we have some tactics that will make it more satisfying)

Transportation (Advice on using cars, boats, trains and planes when traveling abroad)

Travel Planning Overview (Questions to ask and answer when planning your next vacation)

Travel Tips (Power converters, phoning home and other things that may not work like they do at home)

The fifteen most popular country destinations for 2010Italy
France
Spain
Mexico
Germany
Switzerland
Turkey
Greece
Ireland
Australia
Scotland
New Zealand
Japan
United Kingdom
Austria
Other Countries

The fifteen most fascinating city-vacation destinations for 2010

Rome
Amsterdam
Paris
Venice
Florence
London
Milan
Hong Kong
Madrid
Tokyo
Barcelona
Vienna
Brussels
Istanbul
Athens

Best National Parks of the American Southwest.

It's getting to be the time of the year to start planning your spring or summer trip to the National Parks of the American Southwest.

A peek into the depths of the Grand Canyon reveals many mysteries.

We cover Arches NP, Bryce NP, Carlsbad Caverns NP, Death Valley NP, Grand Canyon NP, Great Sand Dunes NP, Joshua Tree National Park, Mesa Verde NP, Petrified Forest NP, and Zion NP. If you want to see unsurpassed natural beauty, the American Southwest possesses it in abundance. Did we mention its wide, open spaces?