Bonita Springs is a city located in Lee County, Florida. It covers an area of forty-one square miles and has a population of over forty-two thousand residents. Bonita Springs is situated on a barrier island that is on both the Gulf of Mexico and Estero Bay. It is the northernmost city on Florida’s west coast and has a distinct tropical climate. Temperatures in the winter months are around sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit and during the summer months the average temperature is around one hundred degrees Fahrenheit.

Tourism is the main economic activity of the city and is supported by the many attractions that are located there. A popular attraction in Bonita Springs is the Art League of Bonita Springs. This institution was founded in 1959 by Ruth Hardy, who gathered together fifteen artists and started the first community art classes at the Community Center. The art league then provided a range of classes for students of every age. In 2000, a ten acre campus was opened and provided art studios, galleries and a gift shop. In 2002, several new features were added. These new amenities included a kiln room, the Morean Clay Studio, photography studio, computer lab, sculpture studios and Braniff Library. Today, the league offers many programs for aspiring artists and holds two National Art Festivals on an annual basis.

Another popular attraction in Bonita Springs is Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park. This beach park is one of the last barrier islands on the southwest coast of Florida and covers an area of three hundred and forty-two acres. Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park is a prime example of the changes in habitat that occur within a small area of land which has only slight changes in moisture and elevation. The park has over eighty-two hundred feet of sand dunes and beach which foster the growth of seat oats. These seat oats provide a prime habitat for turtles nesting during the summer. Barefoot Beach Preserve County Park also has sea grape trees, sable palms and other tropical trees. This beach park is very popular with tourist and is well known for its natural surroundings and the opportunities it affords to fishermen looking to bag beautiful and elusive fish specimens. The mangrove swamps and tidal creeks provide a breeding area for many different types of fish and shellfish.

Everglades Wonder Gardens is another attraction that is gaining popularity with tourists. This family owned zoo was first founded in 1936 by two brothers, Wilford and Lester Piper. These two brothers were retired bootleggers who owned a large tract of land and had plenty of time on their hands. Today, the zoo contains over two thousand species of plants and wildlife which include alligators, crocodiles, panthers, exotic birds, birds of Florida, flamingos, reptiles and snakes of all kinds. They also have a botanical garden, live otter shows and have the biggest American Crocodile in captivity, measuring over fifteen feet in length and weighing in excess of a thousand pounds. This crocodile is known affectionately as ”Big Joe”. Carl E. Johnson State Park is another place to visit during your stay in the city. This state park covers an area of seven hundred and twelve acres and is situated on four barrier islands; Lover’s Key, Inner Key, Black Island and Long Key. Wildlife in the park include over forty species of birds, manatees, dolphins, marsh rabbits, osprey, egrets, bald eagles, woodpeckers, hawks, owls, spoonbills and American Kestrel. The park has a two mile beach, playgrounds, picnic areas, kayak rentals and gazebos. Favorite visitor activities in the park include sun worshipping, picnicking, boating and swimming.

Other attractions in the city of Bonita Springs include Bonita Springs Public Beach, Bay Water Boat Rentals, Dog Beach, Stillwater Spa and For Goodness Sake Marketplace & Cafe. Prominent hotels and restaurants in the city include Bonita Springs Hotel & Suites, American Inn Lodge & Suites of Bonita Springs, Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort, Hampton Inn Naples North, Doc’s Beach House Restaurant, Vincenzo’s On the Bay, Buffalo Chips Restaurant, Iguana Mia Mexican Restaurant, Pincher Crab Shack, Maria’s Restaurant and Roy’s Restaurant.

Fort Worth is the fifth biggest city in the state of Texas and the seventeenth biggest in the United States. It covers an area of three hundred square miles and has a population of seven hundred and fifty thousand residents. Fort Worth can trace its history to the year 1849, when Major Ripley A. Arnold erected a post on the banks of the Trinity River and named it Fort Worth in honor of General William Jenkins Worth, who died earlier in the year of cholera. In November of that year, the United States War Department made the name official.

Over the next couple of years, settlers began to move into the area around the fort. The United States military decided to abandon the fort in 1853 and the settlers ended up taking the fort over. Between 1854 and 1856, various institutions were built in the settlement which included department stores, a school, a flour mill and a general store. In 1860, Fort Worth became the county seat and a stone county courthouse was erected. Thanks to the cattle industry, Fort Worth became a boom town and enjoyed a long period of prosperity. This was due to the fact that the town was a popular resting place for cattle drivers who were pushing their cattle to Kansas. In 1873, the town of Fort Worth became incorporated into a city.

Today, Fort Worth is a vibrant city with many attractions to offer visitors. A popular attraction in the city is the Fort Worth Zoo. This zoo was founded in 1909 and it originally only had two bear cubs, a lion, an alligator, a coyote, a handful of rabbits and a peacock. The zoo now contains over four hundred and thirty-five species and has been named the one of the top zoos in the United States by several leading publications including the L.A. Times and USA Today. Exhibits at this zoo include Museum of Living Art, World of Primates, Texas Wild!, Raptor Canyon, Asian Falls, Herpetarium, Chee·tos Cheetahs, African Savannah, Great Barrier Reef, Komodo Dragon, Thundering Plains, Meerkat Mounds and Parrot Paradise.
Another popular attraction in Fort Worth is the Amon Carter Museum. This musuem was founded by Amon Carter to house his collection of art by Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington. In 1961, when the museum was opened to the public, its first director Mitchell A. Wilder expanded the collection to include Western art from the 1830s to the present day. The collection now has works by artists such as Alfred Stieglitz, Alexander Calder, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Cole, Martin Johnson Heade, Stuart Davis, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Charles Demuth. The museum also contains more than thirty thousand prints collected from over four hundred photographers.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is another popular museum in the city. It was founded in 1892 as the “Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery”, and over the years has been moved to several different locations and has had several different names. Today, the aim of the museum is the collecting, interpreting and presenting post World War II art. Its current home was designed by architect Tadao Ando and was opened to the public in December of 2002. The building has five pavilions and a reflecting pond. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth contains over twenty-six hundred pieces of art and has over fifty-three thousand square feet of floor space. Artists represented by its collection include Jackson Pollock, Andres Serrano, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Susan Rothenberg, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Richard Serra, Anselm Kiefer and Robert Motherwell.

Close to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is the Kimbell Art Museum. The Kimbell Art Museum houses a small, but impressive collection of Asian, European and Pre-Columbian works of art. It was founded in 1936, by Kay and Velma Kimbell, Texas art collectors. In 1964, Velma Kimbell passed away and bequethed it to the state to be used as an art museum. In 1972, the museum opened to the public. Its located in a one hundred and twenty thousand square foot building that was designed by architect Louis Kahn. The collection contains works by artists such as Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough, Caravaggio, El Greco, Michelangelo and Vigee-Lebrun. There is also a collection of Greek, Roman and Assyrian antiquities. The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame honors women of the American West who have distinguished themselves and have personified the spirit of the Western Frontier. This museum is located in the Cultural District of the city and is adjacent to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History.Women honored by this museum include Esther Hobart Morris, Gail Davis, Sandra Day O’Connor, Texas Rose Bascom, Anne W. Marion, Sacagawea, Lulu Bell Parr, Ann Lowdon Call, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Dale Evans, Wantha Davis, Willa Cather, Elaine Kramer, Minnie Lou Bradley and Patsy Montana.

Other popular attractions in Fort Worth, Texas include Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, Fort Worth Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Texas Christian University, Sid Richardson Collection of Western Art, Trinity Park, Fort Worth Botanic Garden, Log Cabin Village, Thistle Hill House Museum, Sundance Square, Pendery’s World of Chiles & Spices, Fort Worth Water Gardens, Omni Theater, American Airlines CR Smith Museum, Stockyards Museum, Burger’s Lake, Cowtown Coliseum, Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, Pecan Valley Golf Course, The Golf Club at Fossil Creek, WaterChase Golf, The Creeks at Beechwood Golf course, Will Rogers Memorial Center, Fort Worth Convention Center, Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame, Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Vintage Flying Museum, The Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House, Broadway Baptist Church, St. Patrick Cathedral, Fort Worth Opera, Hell’s Half Acre, Fort Worth Museum of Science & History, Tarrant County Courthouse, Burnett Park, Casa Manana Theater, Noble Planetarium, Hangman’s House of Horrors and the Texas Civil War Museum. Fort Worth also has several notable hotels which include Stockyards Hotel, The Worthington,A Renaissance Hotel, Embassy Suites, Sheraton Fort Worth and the Ashton Hotel. The city is also home to several bars, nightclubs and saloons.

Linz is the capital of the state of Oberosterreich and is the third biggest city in Austria. It covers an area of thirty-seven square miles and has a population of almost two hundred thousand residents. Linz can trace its history back to the Roman Empire when it was known as the town of Lentia. Lentia was renamed Linz in the eighth century and became a trade center. As a trade hub, it connected several prominent trade routes from Poland and Bohemia to Italy and the Balkans. The city would become the childhood home of Adolf Hitler. Other prominent residents from Linz include equestrian Elisabeth Theurer, Mary Anne of Austria, the writer Hermann Bahr, art historian Alois Riegl, music director Franz Welser-Most, Marco Krainer, Valie Export, Herbert Maneval-Slojewski, Anton Koschany, Richard Tauber, Frederic Austerlitz, Herwig van Staa, Vera Lischka, Frank Elstner, Thomas Marban, Birgit Minichmayr, Sybille Bammer, Helmut Wiesinger and Richard Link. The educational needs of the residents of Linz are serviced by several institutions. These include Johannes Kepler University, University of Arts and Industrial Design Linz, Anton Bruckner Private University for Music-Drama-Dance, Catholic-Theological Private University Linz and the Linz International School Auhof.

Linz is home to a number of popular attractions in Austria. One of the more prominent ones is the Ars Electronica Center. This museum, also known as the Museum of the Future, is dedicated to the electronic arts. Inside visitors can get up close and personal with technology from around the world. The main features of the museum include FutureLab, the Telegarden, Virtual Reality, a flight simulator and Sky Media Loft. Another popular attraction in Linz is the New Cathedral. The New Cathedral was completed in 1924 and was consecrated by Bishop Franz Joseph Rudigier. The church was constructed based on plans drawn by Vincenz Statz and using the French Gothic architectural style. The New Cathedral is the biggest church in Austria and contains over twenty thousand seats.

Another attraction in the city of Linz is the Mauthausen-Gusen Concentration Camp, which is now a memorial for holocaust victims. The Mauthausen Concentration Camp was a concentration and labor camp that is located about twelve miles east of the city. By 1940, this camp had become one of the largest labor camps in German controlled Europe. The complex includes quarries, munition factories, mines and fighter plane assembly plants. By 1945, this camp contained over eighty-five thousand inmates. Though the death toll isn’t knwn exactly, estimates range between one hundred and twenty-five thousand to three hundred and twenty thousand people. The purpose of this camp was to exterminate the prisoners through forced labor.

Other popular attractions in Linz include the Mariendom Linz, Hauptplatz, Schlossmuseum Linz, Landesgalerie, Linzer Landhaus, Lentos Kunstmuseum and Alter Dom. The city is also home to a number of beer gardens, restaurants, cafes and hotels. Popular restaurants and cafes in Lintz include Lentos Restaurations, Verdi-Restaurant and the Arcotel Restaurant. Popular hotels in the city include the Austria Classic Hotel, Hotel Ibis, Courtyard by Marriott Hotel Linz, Art & Style Spitz Hotel, Hotel Kolping Linz, Austria Trend Hotel Schillerpark and the Steigenberger Hotel Linz.

Dunedin is a city located in the Otago Region of New Zealand. It is the second biggest city in the region and overlooks Otago Harbor. It covers an area of twelve hundred square miles and has a population of over one hundred and twenty-three thousand residents. The educational needs of the city are serviced by several institutions which include Taieri College, University of Otago, Bayfield High School, John McGlashan College, Logan Park High School, Otago Girls’ High School, Kavanagh College, Queen’s High School, St. Hilda’s Collegiate School, Otago Boys’ High School, Kaikorai Valley College, King’s High School, Aoraki Polytechnic, Dunedin College of Education and Columbia College. The transportation needs of the city are accommodated by Dunedin International Airport and the worlds most southern highway, Dunedin Souther Motorway. This highway traverses seven miles and connect the suburbs of Mosgiel and Caversham. Dunedin also has a railway station, which at one time was the country’s busiest railway. This railway no longer services passanger traffic and is mainly used by local tourist agencies.

Dunedin is a city that can trace its history back to the eleventh century. This is when the area was first inhabited by the Maori tribes who gathered along the southeast coast. These people built fortified villages which included Harwood Township, Little Papanui and Taiaroa Head. In 1770, Captain James Cook discovered the area and named the geographic positions of Saddle Hill and Cape Saunders. He also extensively mapped the area, making note of the animals that lived in the area. Since there was a predominance of seals in the area, which his notes extensively described, seal hunters began to flood to the area. In 1810, a feud developed between these hunters and the native Maori which lasted for thirteen years. After the feud was resolved, Otago Harbor was transformed from a seal hunter port to an international whaling port. Whaling stations were established at Otakou, Karitane and Waikouaiti.

In 1848, Dunedin was founded at Otago Harbor by the Free Church of Scotland. It derived its name for the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, Dun Eideann. The city’s first surveyor laid out the design of the city according to the design of Edinburgh. This presented many challenges for the street builders who struggled to build according to this grand design across the rough landscape. Dunedin appointed Captain William Cargill as the leader of the community and Reverend Thomas Burns as the city’s spiritual advisor. In 1852, Dunedin became the capital of the Otago Province and in 1861, gold was discovered at Gabriel’s Gully. This discovery led to a surge in the population due to miners and prospectors and Dunedin became the fastest growing city of the time. The city also saw a large influx of foreigners which included Irish, Germans, Jews, French and Chinese immigrants. The city quickly became industrialized and slums began to develop in its core. During this time, the Port Chalmers Branch Railway was erected and the city experienced a decade of prosperity. New institutions cropped up in the city which included the first university, the country’s first daily newspaper, medical schools, Dunedin cable trams and art institutions. Finally, during the mid-nineteenth century economic activity in the city began to slow.

Today, Dunedin is a bustling center for tourism. It has many historical monuments, cultural institutions and festivals to draw in huge crowds of visitors to the city. Annual festivals in the city include Otago Rally, Whare Flat Folk Festival, New Year’s Eve Party Octagon, Dunedin Summer Festival, Cadbury Chocolate Carnival, Samstock Music Festival, Dunedin International Film Festival, Southern Festival of Speed classic car road-race, Taste Otago Dunedin Food and Wine Festival, New Zealand Masters Games, New Zealand International Science Festival, Dunedin Fashion Show, Otago Festival of the Arts, Regent Theatre Book Sale, Otago University Students’ Association & Otago Polytechnic Orientation, Rhododendron Week, Capping Week, The German play at Otago University and the Santa Parade.

A prominent attraction in the city of Dunedin is Larnach Castle. Larnach Castle is a huge mansion built on a ridge of Otago Peninsula and is near Pukehiki settlement. Construction began on it in 1873 and was finished in 1887. It was built as the primary residence of New Zealand politician William Larnach. It was designed by R.A Lawson and has forty-three rooms and one ballroom. When it was in operation as Larnach’s residence it required a service staff of forty-six servants. After having several financial setbacks, William Larnach committed suicide in 1898 and soon after the property fell into disrepair. It remained in this state until 1967 when it was bought by Barry Barker and restored. The house is now open to the public. Another popular attraction in Dunedin is the Taieri Gorge Railway. This tourist train was originally a part of the New Zealand Railways Corporation, but was closed down in 1990. It was then taken over by the Otago Excursion Train Trust who converted into a tourist train. It travels along Otago Central Railway to Middlemarch. Travelers can get a beautiful view of the scenery as it traverses the banks of Taieri River and ascending Taieri Gorge to the Strath Taieri. All along its path it goes through a variety of tunnels and viaducts.

Other popular attractions in the city include Hare Hill Horse Treks, Dunedin Botantic Garden, Elm Wildlife Tours, Otago Peninsula, Penguin Place, Catlins, Signal Hill, Back to Nature Tours, Natures Wonders Naturally, Olveston, Speights Brewery, Otago Museum, Otago Settlers Museum, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin Railway Station, Cathedral Caves, Royal Albatross Centre, Tunnel Beach, Monarch Wildlife Cruises, Glenfalloch Woodland Gardens, Hocken Library, Guilty By Confection, Cadbury World and Dunedin Beach. The city is also home to numerous fine restaurants and hotels. Restaurants in the city include Glenfalloch Restaurant, The Rainforest Restaurant, High Tide Waterfront Restaurant, Asian Restaurant, Golden Harvest Restaurant, Etrusco At The Savoy and Tokyo Garden Japanese Restaurant. Popular hotels in Dunedin include Mercure Leisure Lodge, Scenic Hotel Southern Cross Hotel, Pacific Park Hotel Dunedin, The Brothers Boutique Hotel, Mercure Hotel Dunedin and Quality Hotel Cargills.