You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. This year, the US parties hard with a big birthday, while the wild jungles that lie to its south lure new eyes. Boasting some of the largest remaining wilderness areas in the world, North and Central America is where you can see a Canadian grizzly bear, an Alaskan fjord, mischievous monkeys or a blue whale in a truly wild setting. It’s also where you’ll taste exquisite high-end cuisine and the best street tacos of your life. The intriguing contrasts are endless: vast, rugged landscapes and high-tech cities, arid deserts and tropical rainforests, ancient Aztec cultures and the first Bitcoin-based local economy. In California, you can even surf and ski on the same day. For those craving new discoveries, the Caribbean region, Mexico and Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama) beckon.…