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Seven common travel myths, debunked.

Check out these guided city walks.

The NYT's Frugal Traveler spends the summer following the path of the Grand Tour.

Ten travel destinations you'll be hearing about this year.

Forbes lists the country's most popular tourist attractions.

Airplane travel leaves a huge carbon footprint, and biofuels don't look like an answer. But if you must go, go green: the NYT eco-tourism archive.

Another take on the staycation—places in the USA and Canada that resemble tourist destinations in Europe, and we're not talking Epcot.

Twenty-six students write about some of their favorite places in NYC.

Twenty-five students go in 25 directions, traveling around NYC.

Five Washington Post writers go in five directions in New York.

New York Magazine names its list of the New York literary canon—"26 works of lapidary New Yorkitude."

New York Magazine names some of the city's great architectural treasures—the city's canon.

The Best Kept Secrets of New York City

National Geographic Traveler's Places of a Lifetime—the world's top travel destinations.

Travel writer Jeff Greenwald has turned his tales into a one-man stage show called “Strange Travel Suggestions."

The Best Design Schools in the World

Veg Out in New York City: The low-down on vegetarian restaurants in NYC.

According to the NY Times, finding a toilet in NYC is a performance art. The wallet-sized New York City Public Toilet Map lists 250 public restrooms in Manhattan.  If you prefer an online map, check this out. For the movie version, there's "Urine Nation" about what to do when you got to go in NYC.

Some weird hotels (slide show).

Here's a list of some of the world's weirdest museums and some "frightening, humorous, skin curdling and simply bizarre exhibitions."

Check out this list of The 20 Most Memorable Travel Films.

This month's National Geographic Traveler focuses on the "most authentic restaurants, shopping, sites, hotels and nightlight" in New York City. And Time Out magazine has its Insider's Guide to New York.

Paul Theroux’s next book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, due out in September, retraces the journey he chronicled in 1975’s The Great Railway Bazaar.  And here's Paul Theroux on how be became a travel writer.

Out Today: Pico Iyer’s ‘The Open Road’: Pico Iyer spent five years working on his new book about Tibet’s spiritual leader, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Here's an an interview with Iyer in which he explains why travel is at the heart of the book, and here he is on Fresh Air.