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Sardinia is home to more than 7,000 stone nuraghi towers, Bronze Age castles built between 1600 and 1100 B.C. Best known is Nuraghe Santu Antine near Torralba, a well-preserved nuraghic royal palace surrounded by the eerie remnants of a once thriving nuraghic village.     

The Dublin of the new millennium is a shiny, pulsating city with an increasingly multicultural and cosmopolitan population. New cafes and bars are opening in its cobbled streets, joining antique jewelry shops, boutiques, galleries, and restaurants. The river has also been given a facelift, with the new Docklands development boasting riverfront bars, restaurants, and smart apartments. While Temple Bar has lost a little of its cool factor, Cow's Lane is filled with fashionable boutiques and furniture shops. The Cow's Lane Market especially is the destination for every hipster. Then this being the city of Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, and Roddy Doyle, there are fine literary museums and libraries located amidst gorgeous Georgian architecture.  A visit to Trinity College . The outstanding collections of the National Museum of Ireland . The best of Irish art in the National Gallery . A tour of Dublin Castle . The medieval Christ Church Cathedral . St. Patrick's

While peak fall foliage varies annually, the 100-mile White Mountain Trail typically delivers brilliant fall colors from the end of September through the second week of October. Yet, even after the leaves have faded and the leaf-peeping crowds have gone home, meandering this National Scenic Byway reveals classic New England fall scenes—historic covered bridges, granite mountain peaks, dramatic gorges, rushing cascades, and bucolic Colonial-era farmhouses and barns.