These retro photos of summer vacation around the world will have you packing your bags

Summerm 2026 is just around the corner and Americans are undoubtedly planning their getaways. Take a virtual trip for inspiration through these scenes of summer.

Above, visitors to the Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames enjoy the hot weather in Henley, Britain, June 30, 1993.

Scantily-clad Brazilians sport the latest in bikini fashion along the beachfront in Ipanema in May,1997.

People cool off in the Trocadero fountains on a hot summer day in Paris August 19, 2009.

The crowded beach of north the German resort Scharbeutz on the Baltic Sea August 8. After one of the coolest and wettest summers of the last years, temperatures reached 77 degrees Fahrenheit today.

A man dressed as Charlie Chaplin walks on the beach in Cannes during the 65th Cannes Film Festival May 17, 2012.

American sand sculptor Gerry Kirk works on the sand castle on the beach of Sentosa, a tourist island resort in Singapore on June 10, 1988. The castle is 23' high and has a base 20' square.

Tourists enjoy the high temperatures at a beach in the town of Binz July 3, 2001. Binz is a traditional holiday resort on Germany's largest island Ruegen.

Swimmers on the painted wave breaker look into the sea in the Slovenian seaside town of Koper on Aug. 21, 2001.

Crowds flock to "Nova Icaria" beach in Barcelona on August 25, 2003. Many Spaniards and tourists are visiting Spanish beaches trying to battle against a record heatwave this summer, with temperatures often soaring above 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

Crowds flock to "Calella" beach near Barcelona, Spain on Aug. 15, 2004. Many Spaniards and tourist are visiting Spanish beaches this summer.

Beach chairs with sun bathing people are seen on the beach at the eastern German Baltic costal city of Warnemuende. Beach chairs with sun bathing people are seen on the beach at the eastern German Baltic coastal city of Warnemuende on July 4, 2005. Hot weather conditions reached a peak of 91.4 Fahrenheit across Germany on Monday.

People enjoy the sea at dusk on the beach in El Rincon de la Victoria, near Malaga, southern Spain on July 4, 2009.

Youths enjoy the sea during a hot day at Kavouri beach, south of Athens, Greece on July 25, 2009. Temperatures reached 105.8 degrees Fahrenheit in many cities throughout the country.

People enjoy the seaside beside a U.S.-made car used as a private collective taxi parked near the sea on the outskirts of Havana on May 19, 2013.

People enjoy the sun on the beach in the Baltic seaside resort Heringsdorf on July 22, 1998 about 155 miles north of Berlin. Sunny weather and temperatures around 86 degrees are forecast to continue in all parts Germany for the next few days. FAB/GB

Iranian families enjoy time on a beach near Chalus on the Caspian Sea on July 19, 1998. The Caspian Sea is a favorite resort for many families as they escape the heat from Tehran.

People lie in the sun and enjoy the fountains of the Trocadero in front of the Eiffel tower, Aug. 9, 1998. France is hit by a heatwave which has pushed the temperature in the capital up to 95 Fahrenheit.

People lay on the beach of Travemeunde on Germany's Baltic Sea coast as a boat arrives at the local port on Aug. 11, 1998. Tourists and residents enjoyed the sunny weather today all over Germany.

Thomas Schell, a worker of a company which rents beach chairs during the summer time on Travemeunde beach carries a chair to a winter storage room Sept. 9, 1998. The beach at Travemuende, near Luebeck, is one of the most popular beaches on Germany's Baltic Sea coast.

A tall sailing ship makes its way up the coastline past sunbathers on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro Feb. 21, 1999, just prior to sunset.

US World Cup soccer team goalie David Vanole and Tony Meola relax on the beach of Tirrenia, Italy on June 20, 1990.

A young girl plays in front a pole sitting contest on a lake in the Netherlands on July 29,1989.

Tourists wade in the fountain in Rome's Piazza di Spagna July 26, 1995, as soaring temperatures hit the Italian peninsula.

Children play on the beach of the river Elbe near Hamburg's Oevelgönne Museum Harbour on April 23, 1996.

A combo photograph shows two sunbathers being doused on Italy's Adriatic coast August 15. Italians flocked to the coast on Aug. 15, 1997, Assumption day, observed as a national holiday. The habit of surprising unsuspecting sunbathers with a "gavettoni" or douse of water, is typical in summer.

Children splash down a water slide at a pool in Tokyo on July 30,1988

Sunbathers sit by the pool of a local hotel as a Mexican navy cruiser sails near the resort of Mazatlan on Feb. 12, 1988.

The owner of a tanning salon in Zurich, Switzerland sunbathes the natural way in front of her shop on July 8, 1987.

Thousands of bathers enjoy the heat in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil on March 1, 1987.

A woman and her daughter dressed in summer kimonos chat with a neighbor outside a public bath house in Tokyo, Japan on August 11, 1988.

People jam into a giant swimming pool at the Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo on Aug. 14, 1988.

Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone playfully wears a girl's straw hat as he stopped in front of the El Alcazat during his tour of Segovia, Spain on June 12, 1987.

A young Cape Town, South Africa father plays with his daughter at the beach on November 21, 1988.

Sunbathers enjoy a sunny afternoon at the St George hotel swimming pool in Beirut Lebanon on July 9, 1987.

Beachgoers swim at a beach on the outskirts of Havana, Cuba on August 5, 2010.