In the coldest month of the year, the hottest ticket in Japan, and maybe the entire world, is for the Sapporo Snow festival on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido More than two million visitors from around the world descend on

The Tokyo Tower has fallen at least three times to cinematic conquerors Godzilla, Mothra, and King Kong have all dispatched it; yet there it stands in Shiba Park at three hundred and thirty-three meters tall and weighing four thousand tons, a monument to post-World War II Japan’s economic rise

By land and by sea, the Magic Kingdom and its gang of cartoon citizens have taken over Tokyo, first arriving when Tokyo Disneyland opened in 1983, and completing their invasion when the seven Ports of Call at DisneySea welcomed their first visitors in 2001 Tokyo Disneyland Attractions Tokyo Disneyland is a replica of its sister US theme parks, Disneyland in Orange County, California, and Disney’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida

If it weren’t for Snoopy, and the Mos Burger and Ganko Sushi restaurants along the road from the JR Universal City Station, visitors to Universal Studios Japan might think they had stepped out train of the onto the back lot of Universal Studios in Florida or Hollywood Universal Studios Japan Attractions The similarities between the parks are striking, with the same shark surging out of the water at Amity Pond, the same bicycle trip across the moon in the ET Adventure, the same Jurassic Park T-Rex chasing pathetic little rafts over a twenty-five foot waterfall, and of course, the same Amazing Adventures of Spiderman complete with a moving Statue of Liberty head

The unique visual theme park, aptly named Parc du Futuroscope, spans over 130 acres of land devoted to entertaining, and inadvertently educating, the millions of tourists that visit each year Built five miles north to the city of Poitiers, in France, Futuroscope was opened to public in 1987 and the park is celebrating 20 years of its existence in 2007

The Guggenheim Museum Bilboa, in Spain, was built in 1997 by Frank Gehry, a Pritzker Prize winning Canadian/American Architect Mr

The oldest museum in Australia, and one of the most highly respected natural history and anthropological institutions in the world, the Australian Museum has exhibits to appeal to the future Nobel Prize candidates in several fields of natural science Its palaeontology, anthropology, mineralogy, and zoology exhibits are displayed in a suitably Neo-classical stone edifice, on suitably named College Street, where it has stood since it opened to the public in 1857