Here are some options, from family friendly to utterly terrifying. Family fun A pumpkin made of more than 100,000 Lego bricks can be seen at Legoland in Winter Haven, Florida,…
El Dorado, with about 18,300 residents near the Louisiana border, believes that after shoring up its tax base, infrastructure and school system, the entertainment hub will bring back the glory…
At a conference in Australia on Friday, Musk said if you build a ship capable of going to the moon and Mars, why not use it for high-speed transport here…
Impossible, right? There’s something about travel that’s profoundly unfair. It’s hard for the average traveler to articulate, beyond saying it just feels wrong. For example, if you’re late for a…
Novelty tours aim to generate repeat visits
It was not immediately clear if there were new casualties, a day after another slab dropped from El Capitan, killing a British climber and injuring a second. Ken Yager, president…
It was not immediately clear if there were new casualties, a day after another slab dropped from El Capitan, killing a British climber and injuring a second. Ken Yager, president…
Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, talks about the museum’s first year and his vision for the future of the exhibits, in…
Photographs of vast, unspoiled Western vistas are well known, many of them from federal land surveys after the Civil War. Photography had had a while to develop by then –…
Sarah Jessica Parker attends the Broadway opening night of “Hamilton” in New York. Parker of “Sex and the City” fame will be taking four guests shoe-shopping at Bloomingdale’s, then sending…
Technology is allowing people to ask these questions and many more in virtual interviews with actual Holocaust survivors, preparing for a day when the estimated 100,000 Jews remaining from camps,…
Designation would be first in the U.S.
“Weird,” he thought to himself. Burdiss, an emergency-preparedness consultant based in Flagstaff, Arizona, then let out a sigh of relief. When he made the reservations, he had thought of bringing…
The Spanish island’s three essential elements are embodied in Cova d’en Xoroi, a natural cave that houses a sophisticated lounge halfway down a cliff. As the sun dips into the…
Airbnb operator Jennifer McConnell stands in a communal area of her home, in Cambridge, Mass. College towns like Cambridge say they are feeling the pinch in the debate over whether…
“Essentially we’re talking about mindful travel, with an awareness of the place you’re going and whether the money you spend benefits the economy of the local hosts,” said Jeff Greenwald,…
“We had to hit the ground running,” says Nanavati, now a consultant based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. He made it through his tour of duty, but his capacity for…
So, we decided to join the throngs of vacationers and do a loop through Costa Brava and the Pyrenees before the weather got too cold. The high point on our…
But the department said it will forgive $900,000 of that because of compensation the airline paid to the passengers. The delays came after a storm dropped 8 inches of snow…
Activate the “Health” app on your iPhone (it’s standard and has a simple red heart icon); don a light jacket; unleash your inner multitasker; and you’re good to go. Powered…
A monitor is shown listing cancelled flights at Miami International Airport in Miami. In addition to residents affected by Hurricane Irma in Florida and the Caribbean, thousands of travelers’ vacation…
For many, the “aha” moment came this summer as they watched a crowd of in-the-know travelers breeze through the terminal unencumbered by extendible handles and the bulk of things they…
In Los Angeles, weary fliers find joy in canine greetings
Decades later, that mid-century feeling endures at this southern Arizona tourist stop. Lined inside with warm woods, vintage aluminum travel trailers manufactured under names such as Airstream, Spartan Royal Mansion,…
Consider adding one of these audacious autumnal experiences to your calendar: a squirrel cook off in Arkansas, ukulele festival in Florida, caterpillar races in North Carolina or the annual wife-carrying…
I like to think I’m always up for adventure – I’ve taken overnight trains across India and smoked Cuban cigars in Havana. So this experience sounded fun in a campy…
Use checklist, have a Plan B – and a Plan C
“People were running by and screaming,” says Hanahan, who flew to Barcelona from Chicago recently with her husband and two children to board a Mediterranean cruise. Only seconds before, a…
