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The Coolest Small Towns In America

In Budget Travel's fifth-annual celebration of hometown escapes across the USA, we're spotlighting 10 places that somehow pack in more personality than cities triple their size. How? It all comes down to the people.

Feature Stories

The World's Most Beautiful Lakes

These 10 lakes go to all the right extremes—highest, deepest, clearest—and showcase nature at its most spectacular. Soak up the views from a boat, a cable car, a trailhead, or a castle tower.

Drinks With a View

Top off your vacation with a cool drink and a view to match at one of these 10 unforgettable settings.

Best Places You've Never Heard Of

Eleven people lucky enough to travel for a living reveal their favorite recent discoveries—places they happened upon and still can't stop thinking about. Here are their stories.

World's Weirdest Restaurants

Dining at these eight outlandish restaurants—with names like Modern Toilet, The Clinic, and Dinner in the Sky—might be more memorable than palatable.

The New Chicago

Art parks, boutique hotels, a booming food scene, and a sitting President—the Windy City has come into its own recently. For an expat Chicagoan, it's all change he can believe in.

Secret Hotels of Greece's Ionian Islands

A welcome contrast to the glitzy, white-walled resorts of the Aegean, the intimate, family-run hotels of Greece's western islands offer something significantly more appealing: authentic Mediterranean heritage in homespun settings.

A D V E R T I S E M E N T

Everyone's Going

World's Best Carnivals, Unmasked

It's everyone's favorite excuse for a party. Here are the 10 most over-the-top celebrations, each with distinctive traditions for music, costumes, and letting loose.

Dream Trips 2010

Even as proper vacations grow increasingly scarce, we at Budget Travel believe there's no time like the present to plan one of those bucket-list adventures that promise to stay with you for a lifetime.

Top Budget Travel Destinations for 2010

Each year, we pore over industry news and trends and dive through mounds of statistics to determine the world's new best-value destinations. Find out why our picks are more affordable than ever—and how to have fun once you get there.

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