Rocky Mountains
They stretch across 4,800 kilometres of North America, taking in glaciers, turquoise mountain lakes and towering peaks.
North America round trips: Skylines, road trips and national parks
Discover North America: Canada and the USA
North America thinks in superlatives – and delivers on every one of them. The USA stretches metropolises like New York, Miami and Chicago across an entire continent, with national parks in between that defy every sense of scale: the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite. Las Vegas blazes in the middle of the desert while San Francisco drapes its bridges in fog. The Pacific Coast Highway strings the entire west coast together into one long, breathtaking backdrop. Canada answers with the Rocky Mountains, Banff and a silence you won't find in any city. Vancouver and Toronto represent a different side of North America – urban, diverse and surprisingly laid-back. This is a continent that shapes itself around your trip, whether you're drawn to New York, the national parks or the Canadian wilderness.
North America's must-sees
Niagara Falls
They rank among the most powerful waterfalls in the world.
Highway One
The coastal road runs from LA to San Francisco.
Grand Canyon
One of the most iconic landmarks in the USA, telling two billion years of Earth's history.
The most beautiful destinations in North America
Canada's west: Vancouver and the Rocky Mountains
In Vancouver, the Pacific coast and the rainforest meet head-on. Between Granville Island, Stanley Park and Gastown, you'll find an urban energy unlike anything else in North America. Behind the city, the Rocky Mountains begin: a landscape that makes everything else fade into the background. Glaciers push to within sight of the road, lakes shimmer in a turquoise that no screen can do justice to, and waterfalls cascade down cliff faces that fill entire valleys. In Banff National Park and Jasper, grizzly bears, moose and eagles come close enough to watch. The Icefields Parkway ranks among the most spectacular road trip routes in North America.
Canada's east: Toronto, Montréal, Québec
National parks in the USA and Canada are nature experiences on an XXL scale: wild, raw and simply overwhelming. Standing at the Grand Canyon or in the Rocky Mountains, you'll find yourself rooted to the spot. Yosemite dazzles with roaring waterfalls and granite giants, while Yellowstone hisses and steams as though the earth itself is breathing. Death Valley shimmers in bizarre, endless heat, and in the Everglades you'll encounter wildlife up close: mangroves, alligators and pelicans. In Arches National Park, vast rock arches span the sky above you, while Capitol Reef impresses with red cliffs and quiet canyons. Canada's Algonquin Park offers a different chapter entirely: canoes, moose, autumn colours and silence. No photograph in the world can capture what nature truly feels like.
USA west coast: From California to Las Vegas
The west coast plays by its own rules. From Seattle, the highway heads south through Oregon's forests and on into California. Los Angeles sprawls between ocean and palm trees, film sets and freeways. San Francisco, by contrast, stacks its neighbourhoods across steep hills, cable cars squealing round the bends while the harbour waits below. Between the two cities, the Pacific Coast Highway winds along sheer clifftops. Las Vegas blazes in the heart of the Mojave Desert, as though someone simply forgot to turn the lights off. The west coast isn't just a destination. It's a way of life.
USA east coast: New York, Washington, Miami
The east coast is the America you think you know and yet it still manages to surprise you. New York greets you with a skyline that blazes at night, as though someone has pulled the stars down to rooftop level. Two hours south lies Washington, D.C., arguably the most powerful city in the world. The Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol and the Washington Monument all sit along a single axis, each one far larger than you'd expect. Florida offers an entirely different world: Miami glows in neon, and the beaches of South Beach burn golden at sunset. Get behind the wheel and keep driving south, and you'll find yourself on the Florida Keys. 42 islands, one road and turquoise water stretching out on either side.
National parks: Everglades to Algonquin Park
National parks in the USA and Canada are nature experiences on an XXL scale: wild, raw and simply overwhelming. Standing at the Grand Canyon or in the Rocky Mountains, you'll find yourself rooted to the spot. Yosemite dazzles with roaring waterfalls and granite giants, while Yellowstone hisses and steams as though the earth itself is breathing. Death Valley shimmers in bizarre, endless heat, and in the Everglades you'll encounter wildlife up close: mangroves, alligators and pelicans. In Arches National Park, vast rock arches span the sky above you, while Capitol Reef impresses with red cliffs and quiet canyons. Canada's Algonquin Park offers a different chapter entirely: canoes, moose, autumn colours and silence. No photograph in the world can capture what nature truly feels like.
