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‘Star Wars’ fans explore Tunisia’s remote, peculiar desert

MATMATA, Tunisia – There’s a reason the original “Star Wars” movie was filmed here in the deserts of southern Tunisia. This stark, remote landscape looks like another planet. One ...

New lynching memorial evokes terror of victims

MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Visitors to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice first glimpse them, eerily, in the distance: Brown rectangular slabs, 800 in all, inscribed with the names of m...

RFK funeral train photo exhibit: Kennedy’s final journey

SAN FRANCISCO – The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 50 years ago this June fractured the nation just two months after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and five years afte...

Hiking the authentic Great Wall of China, without the crush

Tires crunch the gravel as our driver turns around and makes his way back down the narrow access road, leaving my fiance, his mother and I alone in front of an empty building. The air is coo...

Crews with seeds, corals restore broken environment in Puerto Rico

A long road back from Hurricaine Maria

Wine and waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge

HOOD RIVER, Ore. (AP) – The Columbia River Gorge is a marvel of nature known for spectacular waterfalls, scenery and hiking. But it’s also famous in the world of wine. The region’...

Nepal honors 1st conquest of Everest without bottled oxygen

KATHMANDU, Nepal – Nepal’s government on Thursday honored two climbers who were the first to scale Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen 40 years ago. Minister for Tourism Ra...

North Dakota tries to establish Theodore Roosevelt library

BISMARCK, N.D. – When Theodore Roosevelt came to Dakota Territory in 1883 to hunt bison, locals saw him as an Eastern tenderfoot with no clue on handling the hardships of frontier life. He t...

Icons of American West on display in new museum – in Florida

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – When you think of Florida, the colored stone walls of the Grand Canyon don’t come to mind. Neither do cowboys, wolves or Native American silver-and-turquoise jewelry. ...

Former U2 stage to be centerpiece of Utah aquarium expansion

SALT LAKE CITY – It toured the world for two years with rock behemoths U2, towering above the band through 30 countries and before a combined audience of 7.2 million people. But s...

A new model for travel? Pay a local $25 a day to plan a trip

ViaHero offers authentic, personal experiences

Kayaking, diving in Micronesia’s turquoise waters

POHNPEI STATE, Micronesia – I’m panicked and soaked as smiling locals fish me out of the bay on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia. “Trip of a lifetime,” I sarcastically thought as we made ...
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