Minnesota Valley Nat’l Wildlife Refuge

The 14,000-acre Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge, located just south of Minneapolis, is one of 14 Regional Priority Urban Wildlife Refuges in … More

The Apennines

The Apennines are a mountain range consisting of several smaller parallel chains, extending some 750 miles along the length of mainland Italy. In the northwest they join with the Ligurian … More

Gooseberry Falls State Park

Located about 13 miles northeast of Two Harbors along the North Shore of Lake Superior, Gooseberry Falls State Park was officially designated in 1937. It … More

Dragon Head Rock

Dragon Head Rock, known in Korean as Yongduam Rock, is situated to the north of Jeju City on the South … More

Snowdonia National Park

Snowdonia, a mountainous region containing the highest peaks in the UK outside Scotland, was the first of three national parks … More

Lincoln Park Zoo

The Lincoln Park Zoo is a 35-acre zoo founded in 1868 in Chicago, making it the 4th-oldest zoo in North America. … More

Dean Lakes Trail

The Dean Lakes Trail is a scenic trail in Shakopee, Minnesota that contains a series of boardwalks and paved trails … More

The Landing

The Landing (formerly Historic Murphy’s Landing), now part of the Minnesota River Heritage Park in Shakopee, is a living history … More

Naturhistorische Museum

Officially opened in 1889, the Naturhistorische Museum, located in Vienna, Austria, is one of the most important natural history museums in the … More

Minnehaha Falls

Minnehaha Falls is located within the Minnehaha Regional Park, near the confluence of Minnehaha Creek and the Mississippi River, by Historic Fort Snelling. The … More

Missouri River

America’s longest river, The Missouri, is born at Three Forks, located just to the west of Bozeman, Montana at the … More

Lake Phalen

Lake Phalen is a large urban lake located in the Saint Paul suburb of Maplewood and the centerpiece of the 494-acre Phalen Regional Park. The lake … More

Como Park, Part 1: Como Zoo

Founded in 1897, Como Zoo, located within Saint Paul’s Como Park, was the first zoo established in Minnesota. It was started … More

Memories of the Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area, popularly referred to as just the Bay Area, is frequently defined as including the nine … More

The Cascades

The Cascades are a major mountain range in western North America, running from southern British Columbia in Canada through the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon to northern California. It forms a … More

Rainforest Cafe

The Rainforest Cafe is a jungle-themed restaurant chain, first opened in the Mall of America in February 1994. The first international location opened in London … More

Mall of America, Part 4: SEA LIFE

Initially opened as UnderWater World (1996-2000) and later re-branded as Underwater Adventures Aquarium (2000-2011), the current SEA LIFE at Mall … More

The Best of CANADA

The country of Canada covers 3.85 million square miles of North America, making it the world’s 2nd-largest country by total area. Its 10 … More

California Wine Country, Part 2: Sonoma Valley

Sonoma Valley (also known as The Valley of the Moon) is another of California’s largest producers of wine grapes. In fact, it far … More

Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee, also known as “Florida’s Inland Sea”, is the largest of some 30,000 inland lakes in the state. It is also … More

Biomuseo

Biomuseo is a natural history museum in Panama focused on the country’s ecological impact on the entire Western Hemisphere. It is … More

The Best of the WEST INDIES

Three major island “arcs” delineate the northern and eastern edges of the Caribbean Sea and make up what is known today as “The West … More

United States Botanic Garden

The United States Botanic Garden (USBG), located on the grounds of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., is the oldest continually-operating botanic garden in … More

Winona

Named after legendary figure Winona, said to have been the first-born daughter of Chief Wapasha (Wabasha) III, the city of Winona in southeastern Minnesota, … More

Sanibel and Captiva Islands

Historians believe that Sanibel and Captiva were formed as a single island around 6000 years ago due to centuries of … More

Houston Japanese Garden

Designed by Tokyo landscape designer Ken Nakajima and opened in 1992, Houston’s Japanese Garden is a 5.5-acre garden located within Hermann Park. The garden is … More

Presidio Park

Presidio Park in San Diego, California is the historic site of the first European settlements in what is now the Western … More

Lake Mille Lacs

Mille Lacs is a large, shallow lake in Minnesota, located roughly 75 miles north of the Twin Cities metropolitan area. It has a maximum … More

St. Croix National Scenic Riverway

The Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway is a federally protected system of riverways on the border of eastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin. It encompassing … More

The Best of DISNEY

Walt Disney Productions (which was originally founded in 1923 by brothers Walt and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, and later operated … More