Run, swim, pose where Olympic champs reigned
SYDNEY (AP) -- In Sydney, you can swim in the same pool where Ian Thorpe won five Olympic medals in 2000. In Berlin, you can pose for photos in the stadium where Jesse Owens won four gold medals in 1936. In Lake Placid, N.Y., you can skate on the same rink where Eric Heiden speed skated his way to five golds in 1980....

A tourist's day in 5 cities: Expensive, exhausting
It's an hour on line to the top of the Empire State Building and $82 for a cab from Haneda Airport in Tokyo. The Louvre Museum is closed on Tuesdays, Eva Peron's grave in Buenos Aires is nowhere to be found, and the cashier at Tim Hortons in Dubai is giving out donut holes instead of change because she's run out of dirham coins....