Travel & Geography

Flights, Hotels, Car Rentals, & More

• Airfare Watchdog

  This site claims to be the only airfares website that tracks all airlines, including Southwest. You can sign up for email notification of fares on your chosen route.

• Euroflights.info

  European discount airlines.

• Europe's Low Cost Flights Search & Booking Engine

  In addition to finding a airfare deal, this is a good tool for finding which cities are served by which airline.

• Expedia Travel

  Discount airfares, hotels, cars, vacations, cruises, activities, and maps.

• Kayak.com

  Flight, hotel and car rental search engine.

• Momondo

  Flight search engine.

• Orbitz

  Discount airfares, hotels, cars, and more.

• Travelocity

  Discount airfares, hotels, cars, and more.

• Vayama

  Specializes in international airfare deals.

• HotelsCom

  Hotel prices worldwide.

• Hotel Discount Reservations

  Hotel prices worldwide.

• Octopus Travel

  Hotel prices worldwide.

• Quickbook

  Hotel prices in U.S.A.'s big cities.

Travel Reviews

• TripAdvisor.com
• VirtualTourist.com

Passports & Travel Advisory

• Center for Disease Control -- Travelers' Health
• Passport Applications
• U.S. State Department -- Travel Warnings

Travel Tools

• Currency Converter
• MapQuest

  Driving directions.

• Yahoo!

  Maps, driving directions and traffic.

• How Far Is It?

  Find the distance between two places, as well as their latitudes, longitudes and altitudes.

• National & Local Weather Forecast
  
• World Weather Information Service

  Official forecasts from the World Meteorological Organization.

• U.S. Time

  The official U.S. time including time zones. See Time Exhibit for history of timekeeping from ancient to modern times, calendars through the ages, daylight saving time, clock works (illustrated mechanisms of many historical clocks) and more.

• World Time Server

  Find the country or city in the left column and read the current time on the right side.

Tourism Offices

• ExploringChicago

  City of Chicago's official tourism site.

• Tourism Offices of the 50 States and Foreign Countries

Airports

• O'Hare International Airport
• Midway Airport

Transportation

• Airlines
• Amtrak
• CTA -- Chicago Transit Authority
• Greyhound
• Metra Rail
• Pace Bus
• Rail Europe
• RTA -- Regional Transit Authority

Travel Guides

• Budget Travel Online

  The website for Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Magazine.

• Fodor's Travel Online

  Fare finder and a resource center. The resource center has a universal currency converter, languages for travelers, and weather updates.

• GORP - Adventure Travel and Outdoor Recreation
• Hostels Worldwide
• The National Park Service

  Browse the alphabetical listing of parks by name or theme. View maps of some of the parks, get information on fees, camping, etc.

• Official Travel Guide

  Find tourism offices, convention & visitors bureaus, travel packages and more.

• Rick Steves: Europe Through the Backdoor

  This site complements Rick Steves' guidebooks. Download audio guides for France and Italy to your iPod or other type of MP3 player.

Geography & Maps

• The 50 States

  Maps as well as birds, flags, state songs and other information on each state.

• Atlapedia

  Political and physical maps of the world's countries. Also, statistical data and information on climate, geography, history, people, religion, etc.

• Google Earth

  Fly to any place on your PC. Worldwide satellite imagery and maps are viewable once the free software has been downloaded. Type an address and zoom in, view a driving route and much more.

• National Geographic

  Global road and satellite maps.

• Panoramic Map Collection

  A map collection of show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective. From The Library of Congress.

• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection

  Worldwide and historical maps, cartographic reference resources and links to other map sites from the University of Texas at Austin.