The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum located in Peggy Guggenheim's former home, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, on the Grand Canal in Venice. It is one of the most important museums of European and American art of the twentieth century in Italy. The museum presents Peggy Guggenheim's personal collection of masterpieces from the Hannelor...

Hannover is the capital of the Lower Saxony region of Germany The Royal Gardens of Herrenhausen along with the recently rebuilt Herrenhausen Palace form Hanover's most popular attraction and one of the most important Baroque gardens in Europe. The 17th century garden displays an array of fountains, exotic plants and sculptures. There is also t...

One of three northern Canadian territories, the Yukon is situated in the northwest corner of Canada's continental mainland. It is located north of the Canadian province of British Columbia, to the east of Alaska and west of the Northwest Territories. Its northern border touches the Arctic Ocean. The Yukon is one of the last pristine wilderness area...

Located in the UNESCO designated Þingvellir (Thingvellir) National Park, and under an hours drive from the capital Reykjavík, the Silfra Fissure is where the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates meet to form part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The park itself is known for the Alþing (Althing), the site of Iceland's parliament from the 10th to 18...

Lübeck and Travemünde Lübeck was one of the great mercantile medieval cities. The entire Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The old spirit of the Hanseatic League can still be sensed in the Old Town with its marvellous 5 Gothic churches and the more than 80 hidden alleyways. In the newly built European Hansemuseum the history of the Hanse wi...

La Gomera, the second-smallest of the main islands in Spain's Canary Island chain, is marked by craggy volcanic mountains crisscrossed with hiking trails. In higher altitudes, dense forests of ferns and moss-covered trees grow in the mists of Garajonay National Park. Toward the coast, the Valle Gran Rey canyon leads past the whitewashed cliffside v...