The Plaza has a large fountain in the middle surrounded ... but the grounds were lovely, and the palace is twice the size of European palaces, e.g., Buckingham Palace or Place of Versailles.

From amazing adventures to dream destinations, here are 106 of the world's most unmissable travel experiences for the year ...

These include three of the monarch’s official royal residences: Buckingham Palace ... which takes place outside the palace several days a week at 11am (weather dependent, but check the schedule).

When you think of Europe, images of cobbled streets, colorful Old Towns, and majestic cathedrals that took centuries to build ...

In Salzburg, Austria last spring, I skipped around the fountain outside Mirabell Palace. Others did too. Some 60 years earlier, Maria and the von Trapp children danced around the palace's Pegasus ...

It is a years-long tradition to dye fountains around Kansas City red to celebrate important Kansas City Chiefs games, such as a 2000 Monday night football game at Arrowhead, being photographed ...

Last Sunday, a query from Rita Schimpf set us on the trail of a missing fountain — one topped with a statue of Hebe, Greek goddess of youth, that was given to the city in 1903 by the Daughters ...

Some 60 years earlier, Maria and the von Trapp children danced around the palace's Pegasus ... splashed in the fountain before boarding a bus to go to the von Trapp's house, outside of Salzburg.