El Cuco is a small coastal community in the department of San Miguel, on El Salvador's eastern Pacific coast. It is known for its long sandy beach, volcanic black sand, warm waters, and setting between the Pacific Ocean and the forested foothills of the Sierra Tecapa-Chinameca range. The area is less urbanized than the country's larger coastal centers, with small hotels, restaurants, guesthouses, and fishing businesses spread around the shoreline.

Pamukkale is a fairyland of dazzling white, petrified castles. It is a magical and spectacular natural site, unique in the world. Thermal spring waters laden with calcareous salts running off the plateau's edge, have created this fantastic formation of stalactites, cataracts and basins.

Cormorant Island is a small, forested island off the northeastern coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, with Alert Bay as its main community. The island faces the sheltered waters of the Broughton Strait and Queen Charlotte Strait, where coastal forests meet rocky shorelines, tidal marshes, and marine habitats.

The National Park of American Samoa invites visitors to step into a world shaped by towering volcanic ridges, tangled rainforests, and clear coral-sand bays. Spread across Tutuila, Ta‘ū, and Ofu islands, the park protects nearly 13,500 acres of land and 4,000 acres of ocean, an unusual patchwork where ancient ecosystems like paleotropical rainforests meet hip-deep coral reefs. Only U.S. national park in the Southern Hemisphere, it’s a place where you can hike through cloud-shrouded forests and t

Aizuwakamatsu in Fukushima Prefecture is a city where samurai history is tangible. Once a stronghold of the Aizu domain, it played a pivotal role in the late Edo period and the Boshin War.