Skint in Sin City

| Even Sin City is feeling the pain as cash-strapped travellers avoid Las Vegas.

US trains on the go-slow

| While European trains speed across the continent, the US railways are lagging behind.

New York, New York!

| So much to see, so little time! Rebekah Kendal rounds up the big attractions in the Big Apple.

Seductive Buenos Aires

| If Cape Town is the Mother City, then Buenos Aires on the other side of the Atlantic is its flamboyant elder brother where 12 million portenos tango in the streets.

End of the world

| Flying to the town that calls itself 'the end of the world', Richard Holmes wonders if the world is about to come to an abrupt and fiery end on the runway. Then a deliciously exotic voice floats over the intercom. “Bienvenido a Ushuaia”.

A monument to shopping

| With more visitors than Disneyworld, Graceland and the Grand Canyon combined, the Mall of America is, incredibly, one of the USA's top tourist attractions drawing over 40-million shoppers a year.

Buenos Aires is booming!

| It wasn't that long ago the air in Buenos Aires was heavy with anguish prompted by a collapsing national economy. Now it seems the breeze is filled with the tunes of tango, and men's cologne, as the Argentine capital rides a tourist boom.

Time stands still

| Cobwebbed-houses and dusty stores dot the landscape in Bodie, an abandoned Wild West outpost frozen in time high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Tangi Quemener visits the old home of gold prospectors and pistol-packing outlaws.