Where the sky ends, a giant lies sleeping, stretched out along a mountain ridge that looks over the Mediterranean Sea.
The moment you arrive in the village of Houtong in northern Taiwan, it takes no time at all to figure out who the real stars are.
The Golden Gate Bridge is a Bay Area icon, and it's far more than just a way for drivers to cross the line between the city of San Francisco and Marin County to the north.
Qasr Al Hosn, regarded as the symbolic birthplace of Abu Dhabi, is arguably the most fascinating site in the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The storm that battered the Edwin Fox in February 1873 might sound dramatic.
Set in the impossibly turquoise waters of the Indian Ocean, the Maldives has become a luxury escape with no equal.
From Colombia to Kenya, many of the world's coffee-growing regions are among the most idyllic places on Earth.
Right when coffee shops all over the world had started to blur into the same hipster Williamsburg look, something completely different showed up.
To be fair, it doesn't actually taste bad: it's a lot like crab.
It is eerie, crumbling and abandoned. Santo Stefano is a tiny volcanic island between Rome and Naples where silence reigns, but not for long.
Who wouldn't expect great things from the second largest landmass on the planet? This is a country with enough prosperity, natural beauty and curling talent to serve a population a hundred times its size.
"There are very few experiences you can share with your ancestors across five thousand years," Tuffy says. "Five thousand years ago, people stood in this same place waiting for this same event."
Borobudur, one of Indonesia's most popular landmarks, is about to see a steep price hike from government authorities in a bid to "preserve the country's historical and cultural wealth."
Like New Delhi, Mumbai is famous for its street food, known as "chaat", from the Hindi word chaatna, meaning "to lick". It is a fitting name, because these snacks really will have you licking your fingers.
