In the northeast of Victoria, Wodonga is one of a pair of cities on the Murray River and faces off against its sibling Albury on the New South Wales side. Near Wodonga you can visit the largest military museum in the country, and learn how the foundations for modern Australia were laid at the site …
Named after its famous Roman-era baths that have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites since the ‘80s, the town of Bath is one of England’s premier historic and recreation destinations. With just shy of 90,000 residents, it’s small by big-city standards, but it’s located on a particularly beautiful stretch of the River Avon only about …
This small town of just under 20,000 is on Fairfield County’s posh Gold Coast. True to its location, Wilton blends plush residential areas with the headquarters of international corporations like Deloitte & Touche, Breitling, Sun Products and ASML. There’s more than 300 years of history to investigate at the Wilton Historical Society & Museum, which …
Only 15 miles east of New Haven, Madison is a historic oceanfront town with centuries-old architecture and miles of public shoreline. At Hammonasset Beach State Park you can lie back by Long Island Sound or spot wildlife along trails in protected woods and marshland. Madison is much more than its shoreline, and has an authentic, …
Located on the east coast of Northern Ireland, Belfast is a city of about 340,000 residents that may be most well-known for the sectarian strife that plagued it for much of the 20th century. It’s also Northern Ireland’s capital and the 12th largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom. For much of the recent past, …
Harrison Arkansas is located in the north-central portion of the state, just a few miles south of the border with Missouri. It’s the county seat of Boone County and had slightly less than 14,000 residents at the time of the last census. With a wide variety of natural and historical sites nearby, finding things to …
An hour south of Sydney, Wollongong is a coastal city bursting with beaches, magnificent natural scenery and inspiration for days out. The city is jostled onto a natural coastal plain by the sandstone Illawara Escarpment, climbing to several hundred metres just inland. A few attractions on this list take advantage of the widescreen views from …
The story of Australia’s third-largest inland city is tangled up in the Victorian gold rush of the mid-19th century. Gold was first discovered in the area in 1851 and this triggered a frenzy that would burn for many decades due to the sheer wealth of the alluvial deposits. The money created by the gold rush …
Set in Victoria‘s Gippsland Region, Traralgon is the fastest-growing urban centre in the Latrobe Valley. The city grew up in the late-19th century at a railway junction, and one of those disused lines has become a rail trail guiding cyclists and walkers over more than 60 kilometres of rural Gippsland. Coalmining is the big industry …
Victoria’s second-largest city is only an hour out of Melbourne. Geelong is one of Australia’s busiest ports, growing quickly in the middle of the 19th century to serve the Western District’s wool industry and the Victorian Gold Rush. The Port of Geelong continues to thrive, but during the 20th century the city’s waterfront on Corio …