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Train passengers enjoy cake and coffee in the dining car on The East German Railway, on a route from Leipzig to Munich.

Two men ride motorcycles through the mountains in May 1972.

A passenger watches as a customs officer at Tempelhof Airfield in Berlin, Germany examines her luggage in the 1930s.

A crowd welcomes passenger ship M/S Stockholm as it arrives in the port of New York on March 1, 1948, from Gothenburg, Sweden.

Tourists on a bus tour through Washington, D.C. in February 1974.

Sea travelers make their way through the Panama Canal in the 1920s.

A woman smiles with her suitcases from the back of a camper van, circa 1960s.

Air travel out of New York City was much more mod and minimalist in 1965. Today, this terminal at John F. Kennedy airport has been restored to its former glory and reopened as the glamorous TWA Hotel. Here, guests can sip Shirley Temples in a converted 1958 aircraft or dip in a rooftop infinity pool overlooking the runway.

Friends and family wave goodbye on a train set for Italy during the Wirtschaftwunder, or wave of mass-tourism, following the second world war in Germany, 1958.

A group of women pose in their bunks in a sleeping cabin aboard the British India cruise ship, circa 1950s.

Bossa Nova bands playing in Rio in the 1960s. Nature enthusiasts watching the geysers blow at Yellowstone National Park in 1912. Families cruising in a Cadillac on a cross-country road trip in the 1940s. There was something downright magical about traveling in eras past. Not only was it more glamorous—people dressed up in suits, heels, and gloves to go to the airport instead of today's sweatpants and sneakers—but time also moved slower, putting the focus on the journey instead of the destination. Sure, it's never been easier to explore the world than it is today—but that doesn't mean we can't yearn for a little nostalgic jaunt into the past. Browse the album below for vintage travel photos from trips around the globe and across the decades.