ThereArePlaces provides concise, online travel guides to over 40 of the Best Places to Visit around the world. We publish unbiased travel information designed to help you find your next vacation destination.

New - Travel Videos

We've partnered with Magnify.net to search the Web for informative travel videos of the Best Places to Visit. We now have videos for Rome, Venice, Florence, Tuscany, Milan, London, Paris, Switzerland and other destinations throughout Europe. Just click any video in a widget to view it.

Like our site, our lists of videos are concise. While there are thousands of travel videos available on the Web, the majority are uninformative or advertisements for businesses. We have spent a great deal of time curating videos in order to provide you with the very best.

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We've changed our design to show pages in the center of your screen (viewing area). The advantage for you is simple, you will be able to print most pages directly from the screen. As a consequence we have dropped our custom print pages from our section on Travel Planning.

If you want to explore the leading vacation destinations around the world, just click here for our Destination Guide Homepage, or click below for the vacation destinations we cover in:
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Try our NEW guide to Ireland

If you want to explore the World's Best Places to Visit that are most popular with our readers, click on the links in the column to the right.

Turkey has many hidden delights. Our travel guides include the best places to visit in each country and describe why these locations are so special. We have arranged our Best Places to Visit in a hierarchical manner - we start with the best attractions and, then, cover other attractions that you might want to see while in the area.

For the leading cities around the world, we provide detailed city guides. For significant attractions we provide photo-guides. Our site is Euro-centric, but we also cover the leading destinations in Asia, the Pacific, and North America. So, click Best Places to Visit to see a list of the destinations we cover.

Travel Planning Guides

Isn't it about time to start planning your next vacation?

Our Travel Planning Guides provide recommendations on what you need to know to start arranging your vacation. We cover passports and visas, tips on exchanging currency, buying the right luggage, packing clothes, map use and other useful topics. All of our two-hundred-plus articles are concise and to the point. We bet we cover some suggestions that have not occurred to you - like the one below.

Better than a camera?

When preparing for your next trip, why not try something new? For example, have you thought about taking a watercolor set and painting a few scenes to memorialize your trip? The vista below is a charming view we happened upon during a walk around the base of Mt. Ste. Michel in Normandy, France.

St. Aubert's Chapel at Mont Sainte Michel, France

Our most popular country- vacation destinations: Italy
France
Germany
Switzerland
Spain
Greece
Mexico
Austria
United Kingdom
Sweden
Ireland
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Our most popular city-vacation destinations include:

Rome
London
Paris
Venice
Florence
Madrid
Barcelona
Amsterdam
Athens
Munich
Dublin

New Ireland Travel Guide

Recently we published a comprehensive guide to the best places to visit in Ireland. Our coverage now includes 12 pages of travel information, photos and detailed maps of the best places to visit in Ireland. Give it a look and, then, get your tickets and "go green".

If you are interested, our press release announcing the online Ireland Guide can be found here.