Among many other great reasons to visit the romantic Italian city of Venice, be sure you and your beloved take a gondola ride under the Bridge of Sighs on the Rio di Palazzo. The legend is that if you kiss at that tender moment, your love will be eternal.

The Italians call it the Ponte dei Sospiri, it was built in 1602 and looks almost exactly today as it did then. Although it is just one of hundreds of bridges in the waterlogged city, the Bridge of Sighs is most popular because of its own sad legend.

They look like hairy pigs and grunt like domestic porkers, but javelinas are actually members of the peccary family. They get their name from their long canine teeth, which can do a lot of damage to any human or predator who looks like they may harm their young. The adults weigh up to 60 pounds.

From 13,000 to a million years ago, this part of Arizona was a green forest, with rivers, changes of climate and tall trees. Now it is a dry desert, and all through it are the rocks that have retained their tree trunk shapes through millenia. Also in the National Park area is the Painted Desert, a hilly area rising above the low barren ground after millions of years of erosion, exposing multi-colored horizontal strata for miles along the rock formations.

On the southern coastal area of California, San Diego is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and visitors can find plenty to see and do there. If you choose to wander a bit from the city by car or tour bus, there are interesting surrounding West Coast communities in the far Southwestern area of the U.S., and just 20 miles to the south in the Baja region of Mexico.

As the second largest city in California, San Diego boasts sunshine nearly every day of the year, a breathtaking shoreline, more than 70 miles of white sand beaches and some of the greatest city touring in America. The city has a widely-mixed ethnicity of neighborhoods, as well as hundreds of restaurants featuring native dishes from Mexico, Vietnam, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and many more parts of the world.