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Destination GuidePuebla Travel Guide
Mexico's UNESCO colonial city of Talavera tile and mole poblano — a 1.5-million-person Spanish settlement 2 hours from Mexico City, with the famous Cholula pyramid and 5 of the country's most stunning Baroque churches
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Destination GuideBohinj Travel Guide
Slovenia's quieter alpine lake — Lake Bohinj is 4x the size of Lake Bled, surrounded by Triglav National Park and the Julian Alps, 30 minutes from Bled but a world away from the day-tripper crowds
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Destination GuideBar Harbor Travel Guide
Maine's gateway to Acadia National Park — a 5,500-person Mount Desert Island village famous for the East Coast's only fjord, Cadillac Mountain (first US sunrise October-March), and the legendary popovers at Jordan Pond House
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Destination GuideTaos Travel Guide
New Mexico's high-desert art capital — the 1,000-year-old UNESCO Taos Pueblo (oldest continuously inhabited community in North America), the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, and 80+ art galleries that drew Georgia O'Keeffe, D.H. Lawrence, and the modern American art world
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Destination GuideCrested Butte Travel Guide
Colorado's 'Wildflower Capital of America' — a 1,500-person former coal-mining town at 2,700m in the Elk Mountains, famous for an explosive July wildflower bloom, the dramatic Maroon Bells, and one of America's most authentic ski-town experiences
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Destination GuideBeaufort Travel Guide
South Carolina's Lowcountry heart — a 13,000-person colonial seaport between Charleston and Savannah, famous for antebellum mansions under live-oak-and-Spanish-moss canopies, the Gullah Geechee culture of the Sea Islands, and Hunting Island State Park
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Destination GuideBisbee Travel Guide
Arizona's former 'Queen of the Copper Camps' — a 5,000-person arts-and-historic-preservation town in the Mule Mountains, built into a 1880s mining gulch 90 minutes southeast of Tucson and 10 km from the Mexican border
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Destination GuideBend Travel Guide
Oregon's high-desert outdoor capital — a 100,000-person Cascade-Mountains-and-Deschutes-River town with 30+ breweries (more per-capita than any US city), Mount Bachelor skiing, and the famous Smith Rock climbing gym
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Destination GuideDoor County Travel Guide
Wisconsin's Great Lakes peninsula — 480 km of Lake Michigan-and-Green-Bay shoreline, 11 historic lighthouses, 250+ Door County cherry orchards, and 5 state parks on the 'Cape Cod of the Midwest'
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Destination GuideMackinac Island Travel Guide
Michigan's no-cars island in Lake Huron — 500 permanent residents, no motor vehicles allowed since 1898, the Grand Hotel's 660-foot front porch, and the world's only place where you can ride a bicycle on a Victorian-era car-free island
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Destination GuideNewport Travel Guide
Rhode Island's Gilded Age summer capital — a 24,000-person colonial port and yachting center on Aquidneck Island, with 11 historic 'summer cottages' (read: 70-room mansions) from the Vanderbilts, Astors, and Belmonts, and the famous 5.6km Cliff Walk
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Destination GuideStowe Travel Guide
Vermont's ski-and-foliage capital — a 4,300-person Green Mountain village beneath 4,395-foot Mount Mansfield (Vermont's highest peak), home to Stowe Mountain Resort and the famous Trapp Family Lodge (yes, the Sound of Music Trapps)
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