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Germany's second largest island, Usedom is a picturesque, low-lying landscape of rolling meadows, woods and lakes dotted with thatched cottages, windmills and medieval churches. The island, 445 sq km (174 sq mi) in area, views to the northeast of the lagoon ...

The extinct volcano of Mt Elgon lies at the heart of the spectacular national park that bears its name. It is an area with a rich variety of wildlife, including spotted hyenas, rock hyraxes and leopards but it is for its ...

Just 1,600 km (1,000 mi) southeast of Miami, the freeways, skyscrapers, malls and parking lots of the United States crash into four centuries of Spanish colonial culture. Puerto Rico sounds like the most uncomfortable kind of shotgun alliance - but being ...

Located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island, Mayor Island is the top of a dormant shield volcano, rising 355 m (1,164 ft) above the waves and believed to have formed about 7,000 years ago. Known as ...

An extinct stratovolcano of extreme beauty, Mount Kenya is the second-highest mountain in Africa, at 5,119 m (17,058 ft). Despite being not far south of the equator it has for thousands of years been capped with glaciers, although these now retreating ...

Tripoli is a delightful, lively Mediterranean city situated on a bay in western Libya, close to the Tunisian border. Tourists tend to come here en route to the magnificent Roman sites nearby, but it is well worth spending a few days ...

The iconic road - from Chicago to Los Angeles through eight states and the heart of America, covering some 3,940 km (2,450 mi) - was nicknamed 'The Main Street of America', bringing prosperity to towns along the way and serving as ...

Under Niagara Falls, a huge tunnel that is almost 670 metres (2,198 feet) long has opened up to show the enormous scale of these manmade marvels. The new attraction, which was constructed on the Canadian side more than a century ago, ...

From the age of five, wrote the french traveller Alexandria David-Neel, 'I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and set out for the Unknown'. This deep desire to explore the unexplored filled ...

Most people are content to view Nature's more extreme spectacles, such as burning fields of lava or pinnacles of frozen rock, from a distance. Others feel compelled to savour them first-hand, to take up the challenges they present. What draws these ...

Since our earliest days on Earth, we have expressed our relationship with the landscape in art, music, literature - even dance. And in the 20th century, a new medium arose: the moving picture. Since the turn of the 20th century, filmmakers ...

Bougainville Island lies to the east of New Britain and is geographic, the largest of the Solomon Islands. At 120 km (75 mi) long and 65-95 km (40-60 mi) wide, its spine is formed of two mountain ranges running from north ...