Who doesn't love to fantasize about all the places around the word you'd like to see? This book certainly helps! My husband and I bought the book on a whim. We love flipping it open and reading about famous sites around the world that we could someday visit. This is the kind of book that is great to leave out on one's living room coffee table. The author does an excellent job of describing sites right here in my historic Hudson Valley or as far away as places on my "to see" list such as China, New Zealand and Fiji.