While I don’t live in Manhattan anymore, there are times where I miss the city. It’s not often as I must say it’s a damned loud place but culturally and aesthetically it’s pretty darned hard to beat. This spectacular miracle you can see on these pictures is known as the unique urban phenomenon...

Just few hundreds years ago, fortifications were the inevitable part of every important city in Europe. They weren’t only a symbol of power, they were built with a purpose to protect the highest officials and most important persons in case of war. Fortresses were build in very well chosen locations....

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in an igloo? Ice hotels sprang into existence in the 1980′s and have been built annually ever since. Let’s hope that the temperatures across the globe allow the existence of these ice beauties to continue. Ice hotel located in Jukkasjarvi, Sweden...

An amalgamation of romance, privacy and exclusivity, the Seychelles boasts of being one of the most beautiful places in the world. The diversity of the island landscape rushes up to greet you from the very moment you set eyes on it from that little window on your aircraft. The Seychelles people culture,...

Cancun’s main ‘hotel zone’ is spread out along a 20km stretch of beach, flanked by a peaceful inland lagoon. The resort has shopping malls and plenty of places to eat and drink, as well as several good nightclubs. An intoxicating mix of the old and the new, the rustic and the sophisticated,...

The residents of Inakadate, Japan have taken the art of playing with their food to an entirely new level. Every year, rice farmers work together to plant their crops so that they’ll grow in artistic patterns visible only from above! It is painstaking work, but the end results are often breathtaking...

Mauritius is a relatively small volcanic island located in the Indian Ocean that has garnered itself a great reputation for being one of the best holiday destinations around. It is a place of practically endless soft and sandy beaches with wonderfully waters in various nuances of blue and incredible...

Turkey known officially as the Republic of Turkey is a Eurasian country located 97% in Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and 3% in East Thrace in Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave...

The Maldives, officially Republic of Maldives, also referred to as the Maldive Islands, is an island nation in the Indian Ocean formed by a double chain of twenty-six atolls oriented north-south off India’s Lakshadweep islands, between Minicoy Island and Chagos Archipelago. It stands in the Laccadive...

Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states (August 21, 1959), and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast...