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I am standing outside the entrance to the Seebad Utoquai, a Zurich heritage bathhouse. The wooden pavilion for sunning and swimming rests on stilts over Lake Zurich and is almost in the heart of the city.

GLASGOW, Scotland Scotland has more than two dozen official long-distance trails through moors, peat bogs and forests. We chose one of the most popular, the West Highland Way.

YELLOWKNIFE, N.W.T. If for some unlikely reason you lose your way in the Northwest Territories and happen to stumble upon Blachford Lake Lodge, a 30-minute flight southeast of Yellowknife, 鈥渇ive-star luxury鈥� won鈥檛 be your first reaction.

GROS MORNE NATIONAL PARK, N.L.

Who flies to Reno on a spring evening, rents a car and heads into the mountains with no skis, no mountain bike and a backpack full of books? Me.

The gathering of a select group of fashion lawyers from around the world that I organize every year was about to begin, this time on a pleasant, sun-washed afternoon in Barcelona, the coastal capital of Catalonia, in eastern Spain.

RED LODGE, Montana Crawl from your warm sleeping bag out the tent door, into the darkness and pre-dawn wind whipping across the plateau. Look up at the cathedral of the sky. Watch the whirlpool of constellations spin overhead. Hold your breath.

AVARUA, Rarotonga, Cook Islands It was a quiet afternoon on Rarotonga, in the Cook Islands, when Lydia Nga got the news.

Though tucked in the hinterlands of Bavaria鈥檚 far south, the turreted fantasy castle of Neuschwanstein is hardly a secret.

Early on a mild September morning, an elderly man on a black bicycle meanders along the paths of Tompkins Square Park, in New York鈥檚 East Village.