Worse yet is what awaits travelers at Pennsylvania Station.

Many lesser-known, high-quality surf spots with low crowds await adventurous travelers.

As in the past, pitfalls await unlucky travelers (though rarer are the horror stories involving house trailers billed as quaint bed-and-breakfast accommodations, rooms facing all-night truck stops, and accommodations with lockless doors and backed-up toilets).

In the Las Vegas airport's McCarran Art Gallery, Michael McCollum's somber paintings of stricken ships and dark landscapes provide a startling contrast to the gaudy extravaganza awaiting travelers in downtown casinos.

BOOK REVIEW A Spain to Savor Slowly Old towns in Aragon and fresh food in Asturias await travelers in rugged northern landscapes.

Two musical opportunities await late-spring travelers to Europe.

Exotic locales await travelers to South America looking for different winter vistas.

This is another one of those little surprises that await travelers who actually venture outside the fences of the high-speed but sanitized Interstate system.

Thousands of federal parks, cultural attractions and wilderness areas await travelers, but since the government is not the most wired entity around, it has often been difficult to find information about these areas on the Web.

A different kind of experience, one at a higher altitude, awaits travelers not many miles from Hana, at Haleakala National Park, the site of a enormous volcanic crater that last erupted about 1790.