If you like your lakes as blue as a lapis lazuli then there are plenty of places to pick from. You could mosey over to the jagged Dolomites to boat around in the pristine waters of Lago di Braies. You ...

They're known as the American Alps, and it doesn't take long in Washington's North Cascades to figure out why. Rows of jagged mountains cut across an impossibly vast horizon while aquamarine rivers ...