Royal Caribbean International is expanding further into a specialize real estate market—private ports reserved for its cruise ship passengers as an alternative to port calls in the real world. It's ...

Some of the biggest were a building mural of Locomotive 1218j and a climber on the Freedom First Building. Classic ads of times gone by, such as the H&C Coffee rooftop signage and a Coca-Cola brick ...

Two more Middle East-based airlines are planning flights to the U.S. starting next year, although without definite dates yet. One is a new carrier, while the other goes back 75 years but last flew to ...

Red Butte Garden in Salt Lake City is one of the most extensive botanical gardens in the Intermountain West. Together with the University of Utah, it is the State Arboretum of Utah. I visited on a ...

After months of disruption by construction and warnings about dropping service over track conditions, Eurostar is headed back to Amsterdam soon.

Thank you for a most interesting post and photographs; it makes me want to visit Southern Idaho. The most impressive basalt columns I have ever seen are on the island of Staffa, close to the Isle of ...

DrFumblefinger visits Conimbriga, the largest Roman ruins in Portugal and an important city in the Roman Empire. The site is ...

While over 400 overstayers have been deported from the islands so far this year, more serious penalties are possible. The possible jail terms for violators of long-term visas have been increased 6 to ...

In May of this year my husband and I accomplished a goal that we had been working on for several years—WE VISITED ALL FIFTY ...

Rome's Trevi Fountain, mostly in the news lately for overcrowding and a plan to charge visitors to view it, will be closed for the next two months while it gets a long-needed cleaning. The fountain ...

Food culture note: In the U.S., they're usually filled with either raspberry or 'red' filling. Vienna's krapfen go for ...

Flooding in Thailand's Chiang Mai province has left 20 elephant shelters, home to more than 300 elephants, short of food. The floods destroyed existing food supplies.