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Today, Beijing opened an enormous, multi-billion dollar airport terminal. Its two-mile-long concourse, linked by a shuttle train, and a new runway, will enable the airport to handle 24 million more people a year than before. The terminal's design is controversial. It is meant to evoke a dragon, with ceiling windows cut as though they were triangular scales. But at night, the terminal looks like something out of Star Trek. Merely a decade ago, ultramodern designs like the one were shunned by Maoists as bourgeois and un-authentically Chinese. In a twist, Americans visiting China this year will not be using this terminal. This year, U.S. and Canadian airlines will instead drop passengers off at to the other two older terminals, according to Reuters. Unless you're flying on an international carrier, such as Lufthansa, British Airways, and Air Canada, you probably won't see this terminal. However, all travelers, including Americans, will soon benefit from a new train, which zip travelers downtown in just about 15 minutes. This subway line opens later this spring. MORE At budgettravel.com/beijing2008 (Image: via Let's Visit Asia)

Many of our favorite travel-inspiring films of 2007 were also winners at last night's 80th Annual Academy Awards: Once (original song), Ratatouille (animated feature), Elizabeth: The Golden Age (costume design), Atonement (score), and The Bourne Ultimatum (sound mixing and editing, film editing). The Coen brothers' blood-soaked thriller No Country for Old Men, shot primarily in western Texas, snagged four awards, but there aren't many scenes we'd suggest recreating… Want to know which opulent Left Bank restaurant was the model for Gusteau's in Ratatouille? The Dublin street where a young Czech pianist approaches an Irish musician in the sweet love story Once? Or the park that Sir Walter (Clive Owen) and Queen Elizabeth (Cate Blanchett) race through on horseback? Get the scoop on these locations and others where the award-winning films were shot (not necessarily where the stories are set!) by reading our latest Movie Quest installment. And check out the slide show starring our globetrotter, Bud Travel. RELATED Star Maps: Where Celebs Hang Out in L.A. and N.Y.C.

Photographer Adam Fernandez recently shared his tips on how to take better sunset photos, along with some of his own images that illustrate step by step how the tips work. Budget Travel staffers revealed their prettiest sunsets in response to February's masthead question, and then we put the question to our readers. We were wowed by the outpouring of readers' sunset photos and stories and created a slide show of some of the best. If you didn't have a camera handy to capture that perfect sunset, share your memories below. What was your best sunset ever? Image: Burnt Store Marina in southwest Florida (submitted by Budget Travel reader Shan Meils)

A headline-grabbing exhibition of 80 works by Cai Guo-Qiang, known for his pyrotechnic displays and gunpowder drawings, opens today at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. It's the first time the Guggenheim has devoted a retrospective to a Chinese-born artist. On view through May 28, Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want To Believe spans two decades and features eight major installations, including Inopportune: Stage One (2004). First created as a horizontal display at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the nine cars have been reconfigured to hang from the ceiling of the museum's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. The result is both stunning and unnerving. Suspended by cables, seven white Chevrolet Metro sedans are pierced with tubes of blinking yellow, red, green and blue lights to simulate the stages of a bomb explosion. They appear to be floating in mid-air as the cables aren't very visible. An eighth car is parked in the lobby; the ninth car occupies the sixth floor. As you walk up the ramps in the museum's rotunda, you'll pass other installations that include nine life-size tigers, 99 life-size wolves, and 75 clay sculptures. The top three levels showcase canvases streaked with gunpowder and ink. Cai is putting his talents to work as director of visual and special effects for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. If his past work is any indication, the ceremonies are going to blow us away. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. at E. 89th St., 212/423-3500, $18 adults, $15 for students and seniors (65+), free for children under 12. Closed Thursdays; Pay What You Wish on Fridays starting at 5:45 p.m. RELATED An Insider's Guide to the Beijing 2008 Olympics Image: Cai Guo-Qiang's Inopportune: Stage One, 2004 (David Heald/Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York)