Leaf-peepers love fall for its dazzling foliage. Autumn is the season to hike through woods, take scenic train rides and drive the back roads in order to savor the scenery. Billowing red, yellow and rust colored leaves change a mountainside to ribbons of color and forest groves shine like gems.

It’s not often you can safely get within a few feet of wild polar bears. On a Tundra Buggy Adventure travel through these bears´ terrain. Watch as North America’s largest carnivores roll in snowdrifts, engage in mock fights and lope across the frozen tundra.

Go on a secret mission with Operation Spy, at D.C.'s International Spy Museum. In this one-hour, interactive adventure, you race through a back street bazaar and underground tunnel as well as monitor video surveillance, decode a cell phone call and piece together other clues to find the culprits.

Hiking with a llama is a bit like walking into the wilderness with Big Bird. Not only are these gentle creatures great companions, they also carry your daypacks, a trait that makes them particularly endearing. At the Telemark Inn Bethel,Maine,we find out how to handle these intelligent creatures.

There is something joyous about watching animals roam free in their natural habitat. Visiting Africa is a dream trip, one that you and your kids will remember forever. To choose a family friendly company and departure, consider the following tips.

Etosha National Park takes us by surprise. Springbok prance across the plains, lions linger in tall grass meadows, giraffe munch acacia trees and elephants stretch their trunks into the silvery coolness of waterholes. Namibia’s jewel, Etosha reigns as one of Africa’s largest game parks.

Learn to hang glide, time travel back to the 16th century, plus swim and sun on dune bordered beaches in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, a strip of narrow barrier islands off the state’s coast that stretch for 125-miles.

Have limited time in London? Then, capture a sense of the city’s rhythms, people and iconic sites from Buckingham Palace to the Tower of London on this combination walking tour and river ride.

For those who consider shopping a trip essential, China is magic. The vendors at Shanghai’s and Beijing’s markets hawk everything—tea pots, Buddhas, pearl necklaces, scarves, jade bracelets, cheap watches, "designer bags," silk shawls and more. But you need to know where to look and how to shop.

While Beijing mixes modern skyscrapers with ancient icons such as the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, the Chinese countryside in the Longji region delivers natural scenes of legendary beauty as well as a chance to see how traditional people live.