GEORGIA The Ante-bellum Trail loops through the center of the state, past Athens, Madison and Macon. Along the way one can travel to grand mansions, former plantations and magnolia-filled gardens.
SOUTH CAROLINA-  More than 70 pre-revolutionary buildings plus some 600 others from the early 1800's still stand on cobblestone streets in historic Charleston, South Carolina. Its museum is America's oldest.
NORTH CAROLINA - Outside of Asheville, North Carolina, Pisgah National Forest offers visitors a journey down a mirror-smooth rock into a deep mountain pool. Abundant state waterfalls include Connestee Falls' twin gushers ...

If you're a wine newbie or a discriminating wine connoisseur, France is a great place to extend your appreciation of the grape. The French have been catering to wine tourists for many years and are well-prepared to show you a great time. Consider a wine travel adventure for your next trip; you can journey along wine routes, tour vineyards and take wine tasting classes all over France.  Here's a little information about three of France's best-known wine regions.
Bordeaux
Bordeaux has been a wine trading center since at least the 12th century. Eleanor of Aquitaine, ...

Every region of Italy, from the Veneto to Sardinia, produces wine. Many Italian wines are consumed locally; you won’t find too many wines from Le Marche, for example, in grocery stores near Naples, let alone across the Atlantic. Touring Italy’s wine regions is an excellent way to sample wines you will never find back home.
Italian vacation farms, called “agriturismi” in Italian, are wonderful places to stay if you’re interested in wine. An agriturismo is a farmhouse or large estate home that offers both guestrooms and information about the products grown ...

Elibariki Elieneza, a Kilimanjaro native, shares his favorite information about the highest mountain in the world, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Mount Kilimanjaro stands on featureless part of the East African plateau, on the Tanzanian side of the Kenya border near Moshi, side by side with the smaller Mount Meru. These mountains are extinct volcanoes, with Kilimanjaro actually being the agglomeration of three distinct volcanoes, Kibo (5896m/ 19,340 ft), Mwenzi (5,149 / 16,896 ft) and Shira (3,962m / 13,000 ft). whose violent creation is geologically associated with the creation of the Great ...

Maybe it's the pressure of the economic crisis or perhaps just knowing that summer's end is quickly approaching that has stimulated people into action recently.  I thought for sure that treasure hunting and gold mining were pastimes of days gone by - didn't only pirates and settlers of the Wild West do those kinds of things?
Apparently not, because there's a new online Wiki dedicated just to treasure hunters!  It's basically a forum where people share their treasure hunting secrets, give tips about hot new locations to try digging for gold in, ...