Around 22 kilometres east of Tennessee's largest city and capital, Nashville, lies the sleepy town of Hermitage on Interstate 40, where the Nashville Shores Lakeside Resort is located on the shores of Percy Priest Lake. The Hermitage Landing leisure

In the canton of St. Gallen, near Liechtenstein on Lake Walen, you will find the exciting Flumserberg. It is very popular in summer and winter, because you can ski here in winter and in summer there is also a toboggan run, a climbing park, mini-golf and

Mühldorf's traditional folk festival is the highlight of the town's festival calendar and, with over 200,000 visitors, is one of the largest of its kind in south-east Bavaria. In 1865, almost 160 years ago, the people of Mühldorf organised their first

Grafton, Illinois, is located on the banks of the Mississippi right on the state border with Missouri. The next largest city, St. Louis, is around 65 kilometres to the south. The Aerie's Resort with Illinois' first Alpine Coaster is located here. The

The Ocean Wave has dropped anchor at a large lighthouse.

Visitors can climb it and have an enchanting view over Ocean Wave and wave park.

Step by step the spiral staircase winds up the lighthouse for brave pirates big and small.

Again and again, portholes

The Emden Easter Market, held in the car park by the Festspielhaus am Wall, is a traditional spring festival that combines a maritime sense of calm with a lively fairground atmosphere. Situated right next to the historic ramparts, the event offers a

In 1880, the municipal council decided that the three fairs held simultaneously on the Grand Place, the Place des Martyrs and the Marché-aux-Grains should be combined into a single large fair to be held on the Boulevard du Midi at the beginning of July.

In the Hessian science city of Darmstadt, or rather in Weiterstadt, just a few minutes' drive from the A5 motorway, you will find the Keller-Ranch animal sanctuary. The aim of the Keller-Ranch is to take in old, rejected, abandoned and unwanted animals,

Located about 3 kilometres from the Canadian border on Grand Island between Buffalo and Niagara Falls, Niagara Amusement Park & Splash World is a combination amusement park and water park. It was founded in 1961 in New York State on just 5 hectares and

The Mecklenburg seaside resort of Bansin on the island of Usedom is home to what is probably Germany's smallest zoo, TropenZoo Bansin, which opened in 1970. Around 150 animals from 70 species, including ring-tailed parakeets, iguanas, tortoises, snakes,