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Rome is a magnificent, tangled urban forest, rich in art, culture, and history. The city has many layers 鈥� modern, Baroque, Renaissance, Christian. But let鈥檚 face it: For most of us, Rome is Caesar, gladiators and chariots.

ROME Buongiorno, my hundreds of fellow tourists crowding the Trevi Fountain on this bright spring day.

At 51, Singapore is shrugging off all symptoms of a midlife crisis and embracing travellers with more and better things to see, taste and experience than ever before.

For much of its cold, damp, bitter prison life, Alcatraz was a place you鈥檇 kill to leave, and many an inmate tried.

NELTUME, Chile My first clue that Huilo Huilo, in central Chile, might not be your typical wilderness park was when I unfolded the tourist map and spotted the word 鈥渃anopy.鈥� An English word. Not one you鈥檇 expect to find in a Spanish dictionary.

EVEREST BASE CAMP, Nepal We reach Everest Base Camp on a sunny but chilly afternoon, after an eight-day trek that stretched our physical and mental limits.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana From 1,800 metres above Guyana鈥檚 rainforest, the jungle canopy below spread to the horizon in every direction, like wall-to-wall green carpeting. Winding, mud-brown tributaries of the Demerara River shimmered in the sunlight.

NAPA, California Here鈥檚 a wine country secret that can help you raise your glass and your heart rate: Along with the Napa Valley鈥檚 famous wine-tasting trails, there are miles of scenic trails of the hiking variety, beckoning visitors who want to exer

鈥楴o fighting about religion in Goa,鈥� called our driver over his shoulder as we bounced down a rutted road to the beach in this tiny state in southwest India.

NEW YORK What鈥檚 a Downton Abbey fan to do now that the series is over? Consider a trip to soothe your sorrows. There are castles and dozens of film locations in Britain, and Gilded Age mansions in the U.S.