Given the recession, you've probably put that Icelandic vacation on hold for a while. But if you're content to be an armchair traveler, you'll get a lot of mileage out of Life Magazine's new book, Dream Destinations: 100 of the World's Best Vacations. You may have flipped through a coffee table book like this as a kid visiting your grandparents -- and although they've since gone out of vogue, the big beautiful photos of exotic locales still appeal to children. Compare Wyoming's snake river, glowing orange at sunset, to the clear blue waters of Cook's Bay in Moorea, or imagine life in the sheep-scattered hills of Snowdonia. Even if you're as broke as we are at the moment, it doesn't hurt to dream -- or to help your kids realize there's a world outside their hometown. -- Gwynne Watkins

Dream Destinations (Life) is available for $19.77 on Amazon.

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