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AP - The biggest challenge in creating a new tourist attraction at Niagara Falls is trying to live up to the main event.

AP - Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is blooming!

AP - Something is cracking, crunching and rustling its way through the jungle.

AP - Greg Lawrence crashed through the underbrush, eyes wide, binoculars swinging from his neck.

AP - Visiting places famous for death is nothing new. You can tour the Nazi concentration camps of Dachau in Germany and Auschwitz in Poland, or the killing fields of Choeung Ek in Cambodia. Tourists sought glimpses of the World Trade Center ruins within days of the Sept. 11th attacks.

AP - An arts and cultural festival that began 13 years ago as an attempt to fill a tourism gap between the Reno Rodeo in June and the Hot August Nights car rally is coming of age as a key component of civic leaders' efforts to revive the city's image and restore its sense of community.

AP - Two days before opening night of "The Lost Colony," Tony-award winning designer William Ivey Long was still working on costumes. They were all brand new, but had to look very, very old.

AP - In a morning ritual, David Andersen polishes his guitar and puts new strings on it, then summons a higher power.

AP - It's earth's most-remote inhabited land, a South Pacific speck of volcanic rock so isolated the locals call it "Te Pito O Te Henua," or "The Navel of the World."

AP - Ron Forman wants to change grown-ups' views of bugs and spiders from "ehttp://www!" to "cool!" After all, such critters clean the earth, pollinate plants and form a huge chunk of the food chain.

AP - The faint sound of cannon fire, firsthand accounts, the famous cry, "Remember the Alamo!"

AP - Expensive jet fuel and a soft American economy are threatening to sink Caribbean tourism as airline ticket prices soar and flights are sharply reduced, choking the flow of the vacationers that many tiny islands depend upon.

AP - It might have been the setting for a "Jaws" movie.

AP - Porters on the famed Inca Trail trek to the jungle-shrouded ruins of Machu Picchu recall the fleet-footed chasqui — Inca messengers who darted over the vast road network of South America's most powerful empire.

AP - The Caribbean remains a top destination among cruisers, and more are bringing their children along for the journey, according to a new survey by the Cruise Lines International Association.