7 April 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, San Francisco Bay Area
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Santana Row in San Jose © flickr.com – Payton Chung/cc-by-2.0
The Santa Clara Valley (
Spanish: Valle de Santa Clara) is a
geologic trough in
Northern California that extends 90 miles (140 km) south–southeast from
San Francisco to
Hollister. The
longitudinal valley is bordered on the west by the
Santa Cruz Mountains and on the east by the
Diablo Range; the two coastal ranges meet south of Hollister. The
San Francisco Bay borders the valley to the north, and fills much of the northern third of the valley. The valley floor is an
alluvial plain that formed in the
graben (tectonic depression) between the
San Andreas Fault to the west and the
Hayward and
Calaveras faults to the east. Within the valley and surrounding the bay on three sides are the urban communities of
San Mateo County,
Santa Clara County, and
Alameda County, while the narrow southern reaches of the valley extend into rural
San Benito County to Hollister. In practical terms, the central portion of the Santa Clara Valley is often considered by itself, contained entirely within Santa Clara County.
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1 April 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, House of the Month, New York City
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Le Jardinier restaurant © Transpoman/cc-by-sa-4.0
Selene (formerly known as
100 East 53rd Street and
610 Lexington Avenue) is a residential skyscraper at the southwest corner of
53rd Street and
Lexington Avenue in
Midtown Manhattan,
New York City. The 64-story tower, completed in 2019, was designed by
Norman Foster. At 711 feet (217 m) tall, it is the 77th
tallest building in New York.
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1 April 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General
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Wilmington along the Cape Fear River © panoramio.com – Idawriter/cc-by-sa-3.0
Wilmington is a
port city in
New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. With a population of 115,451 as of the
2020 census, it is the
eighth-most populous city in the state. The
county seat of New Hanover County, it is the principal city of the
Wilmington metropolitan area, which includes New Hanover,
Brunswick, and
Pender counties. As of 2023, the region had an estimated population of 467,337.
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30 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, San Francisco Bay Area
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Ramona Street Architectural District © Sanfranman59/cc-by-sa-3.0
Palo Alto (
Spanish for ‘tall stick’) is a
charter city in northwestern
Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the
San Francisco Bay Area, named after a
coastal redwood tree known as
El Palo Alto.
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24 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Architecture, Greater Los Angeles Area, Opera Houses, Theaters, Libraries
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The Walt Disney Concert Hall at 111 South
Grand Avenue in
downtown Los Angeles, California, is the fourth hall of the
Los Angeles Music Center and was designed by
Frank Gehry. It was opened on October 23, 2003. Bounded by Hope Street,
Grand Avenue, and
1st and 2nd streets, it seats 2,265 people and serves, among other purposes, as the home of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra and the
Los Angeles Master Chorale. The hall is a compromise between a
vineyard-style seating configuration, like the
Berliner Philharmonie by
Hans Scharoun, and a classical shoebox design like the
Vienna Musikverein or the
Boston Symphony Hall.
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17 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Greater Los Angeles Area, Universities, Colleges, Academies
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Silicon Beach is the
Westside region of the
Los Angeles metropolitan area that is home to more than 500 technology companies, including
startups. It is particularly applied to the coastal strip from
Los Angeles International Airport north to the
Santa Monica Mountains, but the term may be applied loosely or
colloquially to most anywhere in the
Los Angeles Basin. Startups seeded here include
Snapchat and
Tinder. Major technology companies that opened offices in the region including
Google,
Yahoo!,
YouTube,
BuzzFeed,
Facebook,
Salesforce,
AOL,
Electronic Arts,
Roku,
Sony,
EdgeCast Networks,
MySpace,
Amazon.com,
Apple, Inc., and
Netflix. By some 2012 metrics, the region was the second or third-most prominent technology hub in the world.
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14 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
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Entrance © Fletcher6/cc-by-sa-3.0
The Butchart Gardens is a floral display
garden in
Brentwood Bay,
British Columbia,
Canada, located near
Victoria on
Vancouver Island. The gardens receive over a million visitors each year. The gardens have been designated a
National Historic Site of Canada.
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8 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Bon appétit
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Gumbo (
Louisiana Creole: Gum-bo) is a
stew that is popular among
the U.S. Gulf Coast community, the
New Orleans stew variation being the official state cuisine of
the U.S. state of
Louisiana. Gumbo consists primarily of a strongly flavored
stock, meat or
shellfish (or sometimes both), a
thickener, and the Creole “
holy trinity“:
celery,
bell peppers, and
onions. Gumbo is often categorized by the type of thickener used, whether
okra or
filé powder (dried and ground
sassafras leaves). Gumbo can be made with or without okra or filé powder.
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5 March 2026 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General
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Pirate keeping the treasure in community park © panoramio.com – Richard Mc Neil/cc-by-3.0
Treasure Island is a city in
Pinellas County,
Florida, United States. It is situated on the
Gulf of Mexico. As of the
2020 census, the city population was 6,584. Treasure Island is located on a
barrier island off the Gulf Coast of Florida and borders the cities of
Saint Petersburg,
St. Pete Beach, and
Madeira Beach. The city lies approximately 15 kilometers south of
Clearwater and about 35 kilometers southwest of
Tampa. The nearest airport is
St. Pete–Clearwater International Airport, located approximately 20 kilometers to the northeast.
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