Figure out where to go before you argue about how to get there.

There are more bikes than people registered in this city, and the bike lanes are enforced with more consequence than the actual roads — step into one without looking and you'll hear about it.

You can stand in the shadow of a 2,500-year-old temple, then walk two minutes and find some of the best street art in southern Europe covering the side of an apartment block — the ancient and the unfinished sit right next to each other here.

Argentines eat more beef per person than almost any nation on Earth, dance a tango that started in the city's brothels and dockside bars in the 1880s, and built a capital so deliberately modeled on Paris that locals still call it "the Paris of South America."

Spain spent over 200 years building walls around Cartagena to keep pirates and English privateers out, including Francis Drake himself — the fortifications worked well enough that they're still almost entirely intact, wrapping a genuinely lived-in colonial city rather than a museum piece.

Banff National Park became Canada's first national park in 1885, created almost by accident after railway workers building the transcontinental line stumbled on natural hot springs — the glacial turquoise of Lake Louise a short drive away comes from rock flour, fine sediment ground by glaciers that stays suspended in the water and scatters light into that exact color.

Cancún didn't exist as a city until 1970 — Mexico's government picked the spot using a computer analysis of wind patterns, water color, and hurricane risk, then built an entire resort city from scratch on what had been an uninhabited sandbar.