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Prayers optional: A vacation spent at Italy's religious guesthouses

Italy's Monasteries and convents offer a quiet cultural retreat to travelers.

Macarons conquer Paris, now London

A craze for revamped macarons has swept Paris and Tokyo and now lands in London.

Discover good food in Buenos Aires

Want to discover the heart of Buenos Aires? Eat like a local. There's good food everywhere.

Little Tokyo, Los Angeles: Getting the flavor of the place

Feast your way to a new understanding of Los Angeles' Little Tokyo.

Indian Food: Vada Pav, Mumbai's chutney-slathered vegetarian food

Indian Food: The spicy Vada Pav - a vegetarian food that is heavy as a baseball and dripping with chutney - costs 22 cents in Mumbai.

Volunteering at Yosemite is a natural

Visitors who fall in love with the park may return to help preserve it for all.

Volunteer travel

Get away from it all and help others, too? 'Voluntourism' grows as a travel option.

Volunteers get wild in Alaska

Vacationing volunteers leave the beaten path for a hands-on experience in coastal studies.

Airline Ambassadors: Taking flight on a mission

This and other 'voluntourism' networks offer a wealth of ways to deliver goodwill.

Poverty tours travel a fine line

Does peeking at how the other five-sixths lives preserve culture – or commodify it?

Travel books for the inquisitive

Playing down the usual vacation fare, these guides encourage travel to satisfy historical, architectural, and ecological curiosity.

Volunteer vacations devoted to animals

Americans give their spare time to help creatures great and small.

Surprising echoes of Bhutan in Texas

The style of buildings in the Himalayan kingdom was transported to El Paso.

A family vacation to Vietnam

Taking children to a developing country takes planning but is rewarding.

Mayan pride flies high

A town expresses its cultural pride through kites.

The many faces of Mexico

A journey to find the 'real Mexico.'

A step into the world of Escher

On a trip to see an exhibit about the artist, she discovered something more.

Castles around every curve

On the trail of the medieval Cathars in Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

Around the world on 80 couches

Budget travelers make friends and save money by couch surfing.

Amsterdam art, off the beaten path

Rembrandt and Vermeer, of course. But this city's art treasures hardly end there.