An explosion of wildflowers in California’s desert sands is drawing record crowds to see the rare abundance of color called a “super bloom.” The natural wonder is thanks to a…
But unless you live in Wisconsin, you may not know about the 1,100-mile Ice Age Trail. Melanie Radzicki McManus hopes to bring more attention to that route with a new…
The museum has seen an increase in visitors since the show opened, with a third of those visitors from outside the New York area. The show, called “America to Zanzibar:…
The two-wheelers are unlocked and tracked using smartphone apps and can be rented for as little as 7 U.S. cents for half an hour. They are the latest symbol of…
Yosemite National Park rangers on Monday unveiled a website that allows anybody around the world to track the movement of the park’s iconic black bears. Bears are fitted with GPS…
In Buenos Aires, a homey meal steeped in culture, good company
Pamela Wagner falls somewhere in the middle. Though not a white-knuckled flier, she says the noise makes rest impossible. “I’m used to super silence when I’m sleeping,” she says. “Not…
When I lived in China and traveled home three times a year, making a 14-hour trek from Beijing to the District of Columbia, people would say, “Oh, I could never…
A plane takes off into the night sky from London’s Heathrow Airport. Three airliners narrowly missed colliding with drones near London’s Heathrow Airport in the space of three weeks last…
Trekkers hike towards Everest Base camp near Lobuche, Nepal. Mountaineering expedition organizers in Nepal are sending huge trash bags with climbers on Mount Everest during the spring climbing season to…
Some international travelers are citing politics as a factor in whether to visit the U.S. this year, according to survey research by the tourism marketing agency Brand USA. Other new…
A charter plane that left Dunedin, New Zealand, late Thursday flew close to the Antarctic Circle to give the eager passengers an up-close look at the Aurora Australis, or Southern…
It’s not an uncommon allegation. And sometimes, it’s actually true. Ticket counter weights in Phoenix, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Seattle have been found to be inaccurate – errors that sometimes…
Here’s the shortest route to 49,603 historic sites
Leonid Brezhnev had a taste for fast, flashy Western cars. So perhaps it’s fitting that Lamborghini, Porsche and Rolls-Royce dealerships have opened near the Moscow apartment building where the Soviet…
Tourists view parliament from across the River Thames, with Westminster Bridge, right, in London. On Wednesday a knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage, first driving a car into pedestrians…
French President Francois Hollande, speaking at a donors’ conference in Paris’ Louvre Museum, passionately called on more countries to contribute to the newly-created heritage alliance and help push it past…
A Qatar Airways Airbus A350 approaches the gate at the airport in Frankfurt, Germany. As the indignities of modern air travel go, the latest ban on laptops and tablets on…
An EgyptAir plane flies past minarets of a mosque as it approaches Cairo International Airport, in Cairo, Egypt. A new U.S. security measure targeting flights from eight mostly Muslim countries…
The trade group Airlines for America forecasts that a record 145 million U.S. passengers will fly between March 1 and April 30.Associated Press file The trade group Airlines for America…
Foreign students can teach host families a lot about America
The Graduate Roosevelt Island hotel is expected to open in 2019. The boutique Graduate brand has hotels in locations where there’s a strong identification with a university, and the Roosevelt…
Associated Press file<br><br>American will offer free meals to everyone in economy on certain cross-country flights starting May 1. The decision at the world’s biggest airline copies Delta Air Lines, which…
The Grove, a historical mansion that once belonged to former Florida Gov. LeRoy Collins in Tallahassee, Fla. Calling it a reflection of the “larger American experience,” the home that has…
A great white shark swims close to the Cape Cod shore in Chatham, Mass. In a February 2017 update to a multiyear study, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries’ top shark…
The maker of Ireland’s ubiquitous stout announced Monday it’s hosting the latest “Night At” event by Airbnb, which has staged one-night-only accommodations in an ever-growing menu of eccentric locales, including…
The $21 million Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center is in Church Creek, about a two-hour drive from Baltimore. It opens Saturday to the public, four years after its groundbreaking.…
Associated Press file You do, don’t you? That’s when Transportation Security Administration screening wait times doubled under the weight of tighter security and swelling crowds. On just one day in…
The state Coastal Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a $30 million development permit to rebuild the wood cottages, the Orange County Register reported (http://bit.ly/2nivaCG ). The plan is to spruce…
