These wallet-friendly destinations offer serious bang for your buck.

While its battle scars are fascinating, Belfast refuses to be defined by its grim past, writes Karen Bowerman.

Corazon Miller checks into a boutique B&B in a quiet Queensland neighbourhood.

Home to manatees, fabled shipwrecks and the largest all-masonry fort in the USA, Florida's national parks will fascinate adventurers and history buffs alike.

The best under-the-radar galleries and museums.

Shandelle Battersby makes like a local and explores Portland's famous craft beer scene on two wheels.

Graham Reid flies EK407 from NZ to the UAE ... with a stopover in Aus.

This ultimate pub crawl covers 24,727 pubs across 45,000 kilometres and would take three years to complete - that's a lot of drinking.

NZ Customs' new state-of-the-art drug identification machine can instantly identify more than 12 thousand different chemical molecules.

Former MPs and their spouses racked up $703,000 on taxpayer-funded travel in the past year, including nearly $25,000 by some couples.

A search for intelligence on Uncle George takes Phil Vine deep inside the headquarters of East Germany's tyrannical Stasi.

Elizabeth Binning is converted to lentils in a French cooking lesson on the Sunshine Coast.

Shandelle Battersby checks in to SpringHill Suites in Anaheim, California.

Sports fan Andrew Alderson shares his tips for conquering the great Singapore credit card marathon.

Ellie Hutchinson flies with across the ditch from Auckland to a small island in Australia.

Glorious scenery, quaint pubs, perfect drives, wonderful hiking - Kerry has it all, says Simon Horsford.

Pamela Wade ducks the deep-fried abominations for true Gaelic treats.

Readers share some of their travel disasters.

Vancouver is like Wellington when it comes to quality food - it's absolutely teeming with top quality places to grab a bite to eat.

The capital has unique attractions and only some of them are rich and powerful, writes James Henderson.

Newstalk ZB's Chris Lynch discovers there's a lot more to Anaheim than Disneyland.

Until a few months ago, if you wanted a bird's eye view of North Korea's capital, there was basically only one option: a 150m-tall tower across the river from Kim Il Sung Square.

Tracey Bond tags along with a group of bar hoppers for a Tik-e Tour of Rarotonga's best watering holes.

Copenhagen has 320km of dedicated cycle lanes. Free bikes are available from 110 locations throughout the city.

Eli Orzessek joins AirAsia X's inaugural flight IDX6 from Malaysia to Mauritius.

Nick Jenkins discovers a friendly way to visit the turbulent Middle East.

Ewan McDonald flies aboard Cathay Pacific's new aircraft, due to arrive in New Zealand at the end of the month.

Borneo appeals to us, satisfying a long time goal of being with orangutans, turtles, and animals.

COMMENT: In terms of climate change, the last thing Hawaii needs is another visitor inside of her. Yet, along with tens of thousands of others, here I am.

This grotesque playground of mutilated dolls looks like the stuff of nightmares. But the tragic story behind this unlikely tourist attraction is perhaps more disturbing.