High in the Italian Alps, a remote, tax-free mountain town has become the epicentre of Australia’s Winter Olympics campaign.

Alabama has a way of surprising you with pockets of paradise when you least expect them, and tucked away in Coker is a natural wonderland that feels like it was plucked from a daydream.

Tucked along Arizona’s western border with California, River Island State Park offers a magical contradiction – a lush, water ...