With one last burst of brilliant color, autumn softens the descent into winter. While many of the most dazzling foliage displays are right here in the U.S., travelers around the world can find forests illuminated gold, red, orange, and even purple. Spectacular backdrops such as the Great Wall of China, vast alpine meadows, and gingerbread-scented villages offer reasons as unique as the foliage to travel the globe in search of fleeting beauty this fall.