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Tikal Temple I in Tikal, Guatemala. Visit while it’s still relatively undiscovered.

The new highlights of North and Central America

From the bright lights of Broadway to the northern lights, the Americas add up to epic destinations.

  • Kristie Kellahan

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The US remains one of the best travel destinations in the world, regardless of who’s in charge.

I’ve changed my mind about travelling to Trump’s America

Until a few weeks ago, my opinion was: why would you bother going there? But a conversation with a travel-loving friend changed my mind.

  • Ben Groundwater
United Airlines’ economy class seats on a Boeing 777.

Previously underwhelming, airline’s long-haul economy now a winner

Several economy-class trips to the United States have converted me to this airline, with its award-winning app the game-changer.

  • Catherine Marshall
Historic Linden Hotel in Old Town Fort Collins.

Disneyland in real life: The gorgeous town that inspired the theme park

Cinderella Castle took cues from Germany’s Neuschwanstein. But when it came to the blueprint for Main Street, Disney found a muse closer to home.

  • Julia D'Orazio
The Hoover Dam might be the greatest engineering achievement in history.

Inside one of the greatest engineering achievements in human history

From outside, this vast construction is about size, scale and spectacle. Once inside, it becomes more about appreciating how the whole thing holds together.

  • David Whitley
Moraine Lake in Banff National Park.

It’s time for one of the best countries on Earth to stop being humble

With so much bluster coming from the White House, it’s time for America’s northern neighbour to step into the spotlight.

  • Ute Junker
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The colours of Sedona.

America’s most beautiful city is unlike anywhere else

Sedona is like a greatest-hits package of the world’s most beautiful cities, all rolled into one.

  • David Whitley
Elon Musk says it’s possible to halve the US deficit, and in the process cut interest payments and boost growth.

Inside the Trump-loving gathering that wants to save ‘Austrailia’

It is the world’s largest conservative event, and having succeeded in returning Donald Trump to the presidency, some are setting their sights on Down Under.

  • Michael Koziol
Pyramid Lake, where a hand-built, seven-metre cedar canoe – a nod to Indigenous canoes – awaits us on the shore.

Beautiful one day, freezing the next: Rocky Mountains outside the peak

We’ve come to experience Jasper and Banff in spring during the lull between the ski season finishing and the summer crowds descending.

  • Sheriden Rhodes
Doug Turner delivering an invitation for his winter party to his neighbour, Michelle Hernandez, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

87-year-old goes viral for party invitation: ‘4pm until the cops arrive’

Doug Turner started hosting an annual neighbourhood winter party after his wife died. He asks that guests “bring only a smile”.

  • Sydney Page

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