TORRES DEL PAINE NATIONAL PARK, CHILE: Lago Pehoé is in a landscape of granite peaks, waterfalls, glaciers and forests. (CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS / Los Angeles Times)
AUSTRALIA: A lounge car on the Ghan, a stretch of railroad that spans 970 miles of the notoriously harsh Australian interior. (CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS / Los Angeles Times)
BRITISH COLUMBIA: The Queen of the North cruises through the rugged islands of the Georgia Strait. (SUSAN SPANO / Los Angeles Times)
Grand Canyon, Ariz.: One of the world’s geologic wonders remains a place of stirring beauty and spiritual repose. (SUSAN SPANO / Los Angeles Times)
