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Caveman Room: Favorite rooms in the Madonna Inn, a unique California hotel. The Great American Food Tour
There is no better way to experience this nation's incredible diversity than to hit the road. Here are our secret finds, from Maine lobster rolls to New Mexico's green-chile cheeseburgers.
Disney's Value Resorts
The least expensive of the Disney World resorts, Disney's Value resorts put you in the middle of the magic for less. You'll forgo luxuries, but enjoy colorful Disney theming. Family Adventure: Harry Potter Fan Trips
Don your robes and get aboard the Hogwarts Express: two Harry Potter Fan Trips (nine days, or five days) are timed to coincide with the release of the "Harry Potter... Who Wants a Pleistocene-Era Backyard?
While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
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