Atlanta (Global Adventures): The Georgia Aquarium is now officially the largest in the world, according to Guinness World Record. It holds more than 8.5 million gallons (31,000 cubic meters) of salt and fresh water and displays up to 120,000 animals that represent 500 species. Among the animals displayed are four young whale sharks, two beluga [...]

Koblenz (Global Adventures): Germany shares borders with more European countries than any other nation on the continent. Its neighbors are Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, Austria and Switzerland in the south, France and Luxembourg in the south-west and Belgium and the Netherlands in the north-west. The 137,847 square [...]

Maruda Beach (Global Adventures): A British adventurer just finished a two year expedition walking and swimming the lengths of the Amazon River from the Peruvian Andes to the Brazilian coast. On the 4,000 mile (6,437 kilometers) journey, 34-year old Ed Stafford suffered hundreds of wasp stings and an estimated 50,000 mosquito bites. He says that [...]

Arenzano (Global Adventures): Genoa is the capital of Liguria, a coastal region in north-western Italy. Bordering France to the west and the Tuscany region to the east, Liguria is a narrow strip of land, enclosed between the sea and the Alps and the Apennines Mountains. The region wraps around the Ligurian Sea between the Italian [...]

Dubrovnik (Global Adventures): Dive tourism is growing in Croatia, a small country in Central Europe at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, and the Adriatic Sea. With hundreds of sunken shipwrecks and submerged caves lining the coast of the Adriatic Sea, the number of divers exploring the underwater treasurers increased 20 percent over [...]

Nottingham (Global Adventures): Over the next 2.5 years, about 450 caves in the British town of Nottingham will be surveyed with a 3D laser scanner to create virtual copies of the underground world. The result of each survey is a cloud of millions of individual points that can be cut and sliced into plans and [...]

Grenada (Global Adventures): Named one of the top ten wreck diving sites in the world by The Times (UK), the Bianca C is a magnet for both technical and experienced recreational divers and is a major tourist attraction for the island state of Grenada. Located on the southern end of the Grenadines northwest of Trinidad [...]