Belém do Pará sits at the edge of the Amazon, where river and bay meet in a landscape with activity and color. The Ver-o-Peso Market spreads along Guajará Bay, welcoming early morning boats laden with fresh fish, herbs, fruits, and Amazonian goods. Recognized by UNESCO as a Creative City of Gastronomy, the local cuisine marries Indigenous, Portuguese, and African traditions to create dishes found nowhere else.

Maumee is a city in northwestern Ohio along the Maumee River, just southwest of Toledo. Its setting combines a historic riverfront with residential neighborhoods, parks, and access to the wider Lake Erie region. The Maumee River has shaped the city’s geography and development, while nearby Side Cut Metropark provides wooded trails, wetlands, fishing areas, and views of the river.

Arecibo is a coastal municipality on the north coast of Puerto Rico, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the island’s northern karst region. It is known for a varied landscape of beaches, limestone hills, caves, sinkholes, forests, and rivers, including the Río Grande de Arecibo and Río Tanamá.

Altun Ha, where archaeologists found a nine-pound jade carving among these ruins, the largest ever uncovered in a Mayan civilation.

Londonderry is a town in southern New Hampshire, positioned between Manchester and the Massachusetts border. It is known for its agricultural roots, apple orchards, wooded landscapes, and historic rural character, while its location provides convenient access to the larger communities of the Merrimack Valley. Londonderry’s landscape includes farms, conservation areas, ponds, and gently rolling roads rather than a dense downtown centre. Apple growing remains an important part of its identity, wit