ways to be a daredevil on your vacation

Tourists enjoy the view from the Alpspix viewing platform at the base of Alpspitze peak near Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany.

At Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten, arriving aircraft must touch down as close as possible to the beginning of Runway 10 resulting in aircraft flying over adjacent Maho Beach at minimal altitude. Signs on the beach warn tourists of the risk of jet blast

Participants practice on a trapeze at the Trapeze School of New York on the West Side of Manhattan beside the Hudson River on August 26, 2013 in New York City. Students at the school can take beginner or advanced classes in flying trapeze and other aerial arts.

At the Orana Wildlife Park in Christchurch, New Zealand, visitors get the chance to step into a cage and be watched by a pride of hungry lions, who swarm the cage and even climb up the sides and top of it.

The train known as Train to the Clouds crosses La Polvorilla viaduct, the highest structure in the line at around 4200 metres above mean sea level, 219 km from the city of Salta, in the Argentine northern province of the same name, on October 29, 2008.

A tourist goes volcano boarding down Cerro Negro, a volcano that has erupted more than 20 times since 1850, in Leon, Nicaragua. Riders slide down 600 of the volcanos 726 meters on a plywood and metal sled.

A company in Russia lets tourists fly in a MiG 29, a the legendary military fighter jet from Sokol Airbase in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod.

A sandboarder performs a stunt in the Namib Desert located in southern Africa on Aug. 19, 2012.

A hiker wades through freezing water as he treks to the Virgin River at an area called the Zion Narrows inside the Zion National Park in Utah on March 9, 2011. This spectacular corner of southern Utah is a masterpiece of towering cliffs, deep red canyons, mesas, buttes and massive monoliths.

A skier jumps down a slope while heli skiing at Selkirk Tangiers in British Columbia, Canada.