When it comes to experiencing the best that nature has to offer, very few places hold a candle to California’s Yosemite National Park, a destination deeply ingrained in the traveler’s psyche since Ansel Adams focused his camera lens on its raw beauty.

Few experiences are as moving as plying the seas on a schooner.

Incomparable experiences lurk behind every corner in Malaysia’s eminent destinations.

Even a thumbnail list of Africa’s enticements is enough to make some would-be travelers start packing, let alone couples with an urge to begin their life together with extraordinary adventures: South Africa offers it in spades.

Romance in Asia and the South Pacific flares amid great properties in equally great destinations.

Our Asia/South Pacific Editor beat down his beat this month as he traveled to New Zealand for a few days of enchanting discoveries and then hustled over to Fiji, to take in those islands’ seductive landscapes.

Our Asia/South Pacific editor, Sergio Ortiz, is discovering all the beauty New Zealand has in store for travelers. Check out his images from Queenstown, Franz Josef Glacier and beyond.

If there’s an image of India that lingers long after the suitcases have been unpacked and the mind begins flashing a mental slide show of impressions, it’s that India is a human beehive of scattered chaos—wonderful chaos—complemented with dazzling landscapes, mottled cultures and unqualified magnetism.

England will be awash with visitors this year: early June sets off Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, an event certain to throw the British Commonwealth into fits of royal fever.

When it comes to destinations, it’s no surprise that a large number of accomplished travelers have long considered Brussels a remarkable stop. After all, this great and ancient city sits in an unrivaled geographic location—smack on the crossroads of northern Europe.