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Alamogordo, New Mexico White Sands Play in sand that looks like snow

One of the stranger sights in a state full of oddities fills the Tularosa Basin, just west of Alamogordo, New Mexico: the world’s largest field of gypsum sand dunes, blinding white and ringed by the San Andres and Sacramento mountains. The snow-coloured dunes cover 275 square miles of the Chihuahuan Desert, and are constantly changing …

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Travel the Samoan Way American Samoa

Located in the southwest Pacific, midway between Hawaii and New Zealand, the Samoan archipelago has been inhabited for more than three millennia—but Europeans only ‘discovered’ it in the 18th century. Late in the 19th century, Samoa was split, and the U.S. absorbed the eastern part. American Samoa is a territory, not a state, consisting of five islands (Tutuila, Anu’u, Ofu, Olosega and Ta’ū) and two coral atolls (Rose and Swains Islands); the capital is Pago Pago.