TripAdvisor, the travel planning and booking site, announced the winners of its 2016 Traveler’s Choice Awards for the best global destinations. London was ranked in first place. Renown for its historical buildings and rich culture, London jumped five spots in TripAdvisor’s rankings from last year. Travelers praised the city for wealth of experiences it offers, from art museums to multicultural restaurants to lively pubs. (MORE: 50 Stunning Places to See in England) Also moving up in the rankings this year...

Rockhopper Penguins Showering, The Falkland Islands. (Burrard-Lucas Photography/topwildlifesites.com) From pandas to penguins to Tasmanian wombats, British photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, 32, travels the world to photograph wildlife in their natural habitats. “I just love spending time in remote and wild places,” Burrard-Lucas told weather.com. He has photographed wildlife in over 42 countries, typically spending at least four months a year traveling for his work. He also spent a year living and working in Zambia, home to the Luangwa Valley – his...

Photographer Radu Negru captures the view of London cloaked in thick fog. (Radu Negru) London is famous for its thick fog that can cover the entire city in a gray haze and offer very little visibility. It is precisely on these foggy days that Romanian photographer Radu Negru loves photographing the city he lives in. “I’ve always associated London with fog from watching classic BBC period dramas,” Radu Negru told weather.com. “[But it was only] when I was commuting early...

Shepherd’s Bush IV, London, England. (Gisela Erlacher) As cities grow and develop more rapidly than ever before, it's hard to think there are still "leftover" spaces hidden among the urbanized landscapes of the world. But that's exactly what Austrian architectural photographer Gisela Erlacherfound wedged between the massive megastructures of countries such as China, England, the Netherlands and Austria. Erlacher traveled to several cities to capture—and uncover—life in the overlooked spaces under bridges, highways and overpasses. The results are collected in...

Many of us are aware of how massive icebergs can get—some are practically giant ice islands the size of small countries. But few of us have seen how truly enormous they are under water. Photographer Tobias Friedrich braved the freezing waters of Greenland to see just that, diving 98 feet to capture the immense size of icebergs in a set of stunning photos. Friedrich, 35 and from Niedernhausen, Germany, photographed the icebergs near Tasiilaq, the capital of East Greenland, and...

Located twenty miles from the nearest town of Cantwell, Alaska, Igloo City is an igloo-shaped hotel that has been left to the elements for over 40 years. The odd four-story concrete hotel that was constructed in the 1970s along the Alaska Highway system, but it was never completed because it could not the meet building codes of the time. (MORE: No Vacancies – 13 Abandoned Hotels and Resorts) So big it can be seen from airplanes 30,000 feet in the...

August 1926: Boy Scouts crammed into a tent during a camping holiday at Muswell Hill in London. (Fox Photos/Getty Images) While summer camps these days could mean a variety of things, everything from sleepaway camp to basketball camp, the concept originated in the 1880s as a way for children to escape urban life and bask in the beauty of nature. “Summer camps [grew out of a] new appreciation for the wilderness and out of turn-of-the century anxieties about the disappearance...

For 60 years, Guinness World Recordshave collected awe-inspiring, record-breaking wonders. Here, we present a round-up of some of the more remarkable travel-related world records, including places known for their stunning stats, from incredible size to extreme weather conditions. For example, did you know that the rainiest place on Earth is in India and that it gets 467 inches of rain per year? And, did you know that the coldest inhabited place is a remote village in Russia called Oymyakon? In...

This famous Icelandic waterfall is so spectacular, it's named for the gods. Godafoss waterfall in northern Iceland is 12 meters (40 feet) tall, with water thundering down over a 30-meter-wide (100 feet) cliff, says the North Iceland Marketing Office. But it's not just the impressive size and beauty of this waterfall that makes Godafoss such a unique site -- it's also the history. In the year 1000, Icelandic peoples made the conversion from pagan religions to Christianity. Of course this...

From its bustling cities, to its ancient temples, to its snow-capped peaks, Japan is a beautiful and exciting destination to explore all year long. With many small islands south of its mainland, Japan “stretches almost as far north and south as the mainland United States,” says Nick Wiltgen, senior digital meteorologist for weather.com. “As a result, it has a wide variety of temperature[s].” According to him, in the northern part of Japan, summers are mild but winters are cold and...

1. Glowworm Caves - New Zealand Joseph Michael, a photographer based in New Zealand, spent hours capturing the light from glowworms in limestone caves. Because the glowworms are found above water, Michael stood hours in cold water to freeze the worms’ luminosity. “Being inside the caves is an interesting experience,” Michael told weather.com. “The moving water echoes through the cave system, which creates quite a loud ambient noise level.” The immersive experience in the dark meant that Michael needed to...

Together with its sights and sounds, the most memorable ways to experience a city or town is through its distinctive smell. Around the world, travelers will remember the unique, emotion-provoking scent of a place—from the sea-and-salt smell of a seaside town to the odor of car exhaust in an urban jungle. View the slideshow above for a tour of the world's smelliest places: 10 town and cities with unique olfactory features. The town of Rotorua, New Zealand knows there are...

Every year, Paris transforms the riverbanks of the Seine into artificial, sandy beaches packed with deckchairs, free libraries, beach volleyball, ice cream vendors and complimentary concerts. It is the “Paris Plages” event and this is the 13th year the city has offered these free, urban oases for tourists and locals to enjoy, reports The Huffington Post. The beaches opened to the public on July 19. Most will remain open until August 17, although the beach in the city’s 19th ‘arrondissement’...