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NEW YORK (AP) - If you can't afford a vacation abroad this year, you may be looking to armchair travel. Consider checking out a new show on PBS, "Art Wolfe's Travels to the Edge," which showcases off-the-beaten-path destinations and trip ideas from Wolfe, a photographer.

Here are a few unique alternatives to classic tourist destinations:

--Japan: As a side trip from Tokyo during a winter trip, visit snow monkeys soaking in hot springs in Nagano, the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics. .

--Australia: On the continent's west coast, you'll find Bungle Bungles, a collection of beehive-shaped hills with interleaved layers of rock. The area is sacred to the Aborigines.

--Iceland: The dollar buys a lot in Iceland these days, and on the other side of the island from the capital of Reykjavik is the Jokulsarlon, a glacier-fed lake filled with icebergs a few hundred metres from the sea.