Close-Ups

You are forgiven for not having visited Vermilion Cliffs, or perhaps not having heard of the place at all.

We give so little love to our state parks.

Some places were just made to be photographed.

For anyone thinking about going to New Zealand, it won’t take long to realize a majority of the country is divided between two large islands, each with their own pizzazz.

I was on a four-month road trip across America when I first breached New Mexico’s southern flank.

In Colorado’s Rocky Mountains lie the two fourteeners -- Maroon Peak and North Maroon Peak -- that together comprise the Maroon Bells.

I grew up on the Potomac River, a stone’s throw from George Mason’s historic home at Gunston Hall and just a few miles downriver from George Washington’s home at Mount Vernon.

Summer road trips are an American right of passage, and while Route 66 is a classic and the PCH has famously good looks, no drive encapsulates what summer’s all about quite like U.S. 1, along the rocky coastline of Maine.

My grandmother lives in Athens, so I’ve been visiting Greece off and on my whole life.

Visiting Colombia’s most beautiful cities and sights was so spectacular, I decided to move there.

Yes, Taiwan is a wallet-friendly destination, but so is Southeast Asia at large.

If the National Parks Service was the best idea America ever had, then Yellowstone -- the first national park not only in the US but in the world -- is its crowning achievement.