10 Great Motorcycle Trips

Into the life of every motorcycle owner a little wanderlust must fall. It's to be assumed we all have our own reasons for buying that machine and giving it so much loving care, but at some point, you can bet you're going to get the urge to see just how far the two of you can go together.If you really consider your aims, interests and what excites you -- beautiful vistas, historic sites or even just a particular region -- you can enjoy the road for more than just a means to an end. Here, we'll look at 10 great rides, from the extremely rough to the slow-and-easy, that should suit any mood or interest. Be bold, be brave, be safe, and, above all, make sure to enjoy yourself. Every mile along the way.

10 Foods to Buy by the Side of the Road

For some reason, food always tastes better on the road. There's something alluring about mini, mobile food establishments. Whether they are rugged, homey stands along the country highway, or the fast, efficient and ultra-compact food vendors scattered about city street corners, they can be irresistible.
Although street vendors thrive around the world, especially urban areas in Asia and the Middle East, the vendors in the United States reflect the quintessential American melting pot. Throughout the immigration waves of the late 19th and 20th centuries, immigrants without strong English skills or much education increasingly found success as street vendors. As a result, Americans have been exposed to ethnic food on the street.
New York is perhaps the city most known for its street vendor food. And even there, the city has not always embraced the practice. Because they crowded the streets, the city started enacting laws restricting food vendors as far back as the 17th century. And today, a fair amount of politics surround street vendors -- partly due to the bureaucratic complexities of getting a proper permit. In exploring them for her New York Times article, the writer Julia Moskin found that many street vendors would not seek legal redress in battles against other vendors (and would not even talk to her on the record) lest authorities inspect them.
And with the modern concerns about food safety and health, vendors are facing as much criticism as ever. But despite the adversity, street food remains enduringly popular.

10 Strange Islands

For people who spend most of their time on the mainland, islands can be inherently interesting places. While some lie just off the coast, many can be found dotting the remote regions of the world's great oceans like tiny homesteads on a vast, empty plain. Island scenery is often very picturesque, with prevalent ocean views, and weather can be as unpredictable as it can be beautiful. Given the isolation and allure of such locations, it's no coincidence that some of the world's most famous getaways are on islands. What some islands lack in charm, however, they make up for in peculiarity. Sometimes these strange qualities are natural, like the presence of plants, animals and geologic formations unlike any others on Earth. Other times the curiosity is man-made. Abandoned cities, haunted buildings, eccentric rituals and unexplained relics are just a few things that make many islands more bizarre than they are beautiful. Read on to discover more about Earth's most abnormal atolls.

10 Incredible Holes

From space, Earth looks like a smooth, blue-green marble, quietly spinning in its orbit around the sun. But the view is much different on the ground. Millions of years of tectonic upheaval and erosion, as well as thousands of years of human modification, have created a surface broken by rugged mountain ranges, deep gorges and other fantastic features. Prominent among these formations are holes -- some natural, like ocean trenches, craters, sinkholes and canyons, and some man-made, like mines and boreholes. Most of these depressions are relatively unremarkable, but some have swallowed whole city blocks, caught fire and even reached depths of nearly 8 miles (12.9 kilometers)!

Earth and its inhabitants have created a number of incredible holes. The following 10 are especially deep, large, beautiful or downright bizarre.