Most people are attracted to Kiawah Island, just outside Charleston, because this is the home of five great golf courses, including the legendary Ocean Course, which, it says here, is the best resort course in North America.

This is a resort you like from the moment you walk into its stately foyer which is lined with cappuccino marble, brightly covered furnishings, warm wood trim and some of the nicest staff in the industry, all of whom wear nametags with their country of origin.

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA - Come winter on the Prairies, when temperatures dip below -40ºC for long stretches and the need for warm weather reaches fever pitch, many westerners pack their saddle bags and head south to Canada's 11th province Arizona.

Dallas- Stephanie Hutson wants to show me the treasures locked behind the cellar door at the bottom of the twisted staircase in the old Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek.