Adventure Travel

Some of the coolest travel destinations around are best explored the old fashioned way: on your own two feet.

Home to the Grand Canyon and mountainous pine forests in the north, and cactus-filled deserts in the south, Arizona has a varied natural landscape unlike any other state. Yet as tough and rugged as the landscape might look on the outside, destinations throughout the state have been tamed with creature comforts complete with golf courses, spas, and shopping. See both sides of the state with a long-haul trip to Arizona running north from the Grand Canyon and traveling south to Tucson and Tombstone.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, a relatively unknown national treasure located on the northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, earned the title of "Most Beautiful Place in America," according to Good Morning America.