Once considered the most beautiful actresses of her generation, Isabelle Adjani now constantly faces claims that her looks are held together by plastic surgery.

FORBES: Isabelle Adjani and the Newspaper Business

Over the weekend, NPR broadcast a must-listen piece on the astounding inventing career of Hedy Lamarr, an actress once considered by some to be the most beautiful woman in the world.

FORBES: Hedy Lamarr, The Most Glamorous Geek Of All Time

Trips alight on various islands and also the Antarctic Peninsula to visit research stations run by different countries, giving a sense of the island's recent human history and the fragility of our hold on this most remote part of the world, beautiful and full of thrilling danger all at once.

CNN: Embrace ice: 8 cool getaways