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  • New high-tech attraction tells Niagara Falls story (AP) -

    Boys and Girls club members Claire Lovell, left, and Jordan Oxford, center, experience the new multi-million dollar attraction 'Niagara's Fury,' at Niagara Falls' Table Rock on the brink of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, Sunday June 22, 2008. (AP Photo/John Hickey)AP - The biggest challenge in creating a new tourist attraction at Niagara Falls is trying to live up to the main event.


  • Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming (AP) -

    Tourists rest on a bench overlooking the Hudson river and gardens at Wave Hill, a public garden and cultural center in the northwest Bronx in New York, Tuesday, June 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming!


  • See gorillas up close in Rwanda (AP) -

    This undated photo released by the African Wildlife Foundation shows a Rwandan gorilla in Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. (AP Photo/Craig R. Sholley)AP - Something is cracking, crunching and rustling its way through the jungle.


  • NY's Seaway Trail preened as world-class birding region (AP) -

    A Tennessee Warbler is viewed under a magnifying glass at the Braddock Bay Bird Observatory near Rochester, N.Y., Sunday, May 25, 2008. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)AP - Greg Lawrence crashed through the underbrush, eyes wide, binoculars swinging from his neck.


  • Tourists visit genocide memorials in Rwanda (AP) -

    Clothing belonging to the victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide is shown hanging on a clothesline, Nov. 25, 2006, at the Murambi Genocide Memorial Site outside of Gikongoro, Rwanda. (AP Photo/Jody Kurash)AP - Visiting places famous for death is nothing new. You can tour the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau in Germany and Auschwitz in Poland, or the killing fields of Choeung Ek in Cambodia. Tourists sought glimpses of the World Trade Center ruins within days of the Sept. 11th attacks.


  • July arts fest renews Reno's image, draws visitors (AP) -

    Guitarist Lenny Supera lays on his back while playing with the Max Volume band Friday, June 13,2008, during the Rolling on the River concert series in Wingfield park, downtown Reno, Nev. The rolling on the river concerts run through the Artown celebrations in July. (AP Photo/Scott Sady)AP - An arts and cultural festival that began 13 years ago as an attempt to fill a tourism gap between the Reno Rodeo in June and the Hot August Nights car rally is coming of age as a key component of civic leaders' efforts to revive the city's image and restore its sense of community.


  • 'Lost Colony' returns to NC Outer Banks after fire (AP) -

    This undated photo released by the Roanoke Island Historical Association, shows actors Paul Miller, left, Nichole Ferry and Matt Patrick in the first act of the nation's longest-running symphonic outdoor drama 'The Lost Colony,' in Manteo, N.C. (AP Photo/Roanoke Island Historical Association, J. Aaron Trotman)AP - Two days before opening night of "The Lost Colony," Tony-award winning designer William Ivey Long was still working on costumes. They were all brand new, but had to look very, very old.


  • Guitarist is Country Music Hall ambassador (AP) -

    Guitarist David Andersen performs for a group of students from Russelville, Ala., as they wait to tour the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, May 22, 2008. Andersen strolls the facility, playing his wireless guitar while chatting with visitors. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)AP - In a morning ritual, David Andersen polishes his guitar and puts new strings on it, then summons a higher power.


  • Record tourism could harm Easter Island statues (AP) -

    In this Feb. 2007 file photo, giant volcanic rock statues called Moais are shown on Easter Island in the South Pacific. Easter Island is Earth's most remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it 'Te Pito O Te Henua,' or 'The Navel of the World.' (AP Photo/La Tercera, File)AP - It's earth's most-remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World."


  • New Orleans goes bug-eyed over new Insectarium (AP) -

    In this June 4, 2008 file photo, Thomas Frese, of the Audubon Insectarium, holds a butterfly in his hand while at the insectarium in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)AP - Ron Forman wants to change grown-ups' views of bugs and spiders from "ehttp://www!" to "cool!" After all, such critters clean the earth, pollinate plants and form a huge chunk of the food chain.


  • Alamo debuts audio tour of historic battle (AP) -

    Marty Stone listens to an audio guide as he visits the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas on Thursday, June 5, 2008. The Alamo unveiled a 55-minute audio tour in May that gives each listener music, sound effects and perspective from historians, as well as dramatic readings of eyewitness accounts of the 13 days in 1836 that ended with the fall of the Texas-defended Alamo. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)AP - The faint sound of cannon fire, firsthand accounts, the famous cry, "Remember the Alamo!"


  • Flight cuts may hurt Caribbean tourism (AP) -

    An American Airlines jet lifts off in San Juan, Friday, June 13, 2008. Expensive jet fuel and a soft American economy are threatening to sink Caribbean tourism as airline ticket prices soar and flights are sharply reduced, choking the flow of the travelers that the region depends upon, according to some tourism officials. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Expensive jet fuel and a soft American economy are threatening to sink Caribbean tourism as airline ticket prices soar and flights are sharply reduced, choking the flow of the vacationers that many tiny islands depend upon.


  • At Ga. aquarium, guests swim with whale sharks (AP) -

    A diver swims in the Georgia Aquarium's Ocean Voyager tank Friday May 30, 2008 in Atlanta. It's not a cheap trip, costing $190 for snorkelers and $290 for scuba divers. But the aquarium has so far been encouraged by the response. Aquarium spokesman Dave Santucci said some 1,500 have signed up for the program before its June 8 start. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - It might have been the setting for a "Jaws" movie.


  • Heavy load for porters on Inca Trail (AP) -

    Porters walk along a path during an Inca trail expedition in Cuzco, Peru, Friday, April 11, 2008. Porters on this famed Andean adventure trek to the jungle shrouded ruins of Machu Picchu channel the fleet-footed chasqui Inca messengers who darted through the vast road network of South America's most powerful empire. (AP Photo/Andrew Whalem)AP - Porters on the famed Inca Trail trek to the jungle-shrouded ruins of Machu Picchu recall the fleet-footed chasqui — Inca messengers who darted over the vast road network of South America's most powerful empire.


  • Caribbean remains top cruise destination (AP) -

    This undated photo released by Holland America Lines shows children on a water slide at the new Half Moon Lagoon water park, located on the shore of Half Moon Cay's main beach in the Bahamas. Cruise experts say that in response to rising fuel costs, cruise lines are increasing surcharges and changing their itineraries but the Caribbean remains a top destination among cruisers, and more are bringing their children along for the journey, according to a new survey by the Cruise Lines International Association. (AP Photo/Holland America Line,Andy Newman)AP - The Caribbean remains a top destination among cruisers, and more are bringing their children along for the journey, according to a new survey by the Cruise Lines International Association.


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