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Arkansas city hopes $100 million effort will restore glory

EL DORADO, Ark. – An oil and timber town that was Arkansas’ richest community nearly a century ago believes that building a $100 million arts district in its historic downtown will spark a “...

DATE: Oct 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

SpaceX: Rocket for moon, Mars and N.Y. to Shanghai in 39 minutes

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX chief Elon Musk’s elaborate plan for a mega-rocket to carry astronauts to Mars may have some down-to-Earth applications. At a conference in Australia...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

In Mark Twain house, you can play live ‘Clue’ game

Novelty tours aim to generate repeat visits

DATE: Oct 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Stealthy, scarce and spectacular: Viewing tigers in India

A photographer goes on safari

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Climber: Rock fall strikes Yosemite for a second day

SAN FRANCISCO – A massive new rock fall hit Yosemite National Park on Thursday, cracking with a thundering roar off the iconic El Capitan rock formation and sending huge plumes of white dust...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Smithsonian’s black history museum popular destination in D.C.

WASHINGTON – In its first year, the Smithsonian’s new black museum has become the nation’s top temple to blackness, an Afrocentric shrine on the National Mall where people of all races, colo...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

New Orleans museum to display oldest photographs of U.S. landscapes

NEW ORLEANS – Some of the oldest daguerreotypes and photographs of U.S. landscapes are about to go on display in New Orleans, as part of the first exhibit and study of such landscapes made e...

DATE: Sep 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Airbnb launches local tours in NYC with Sarah Jessica Parker

Airbnb is launching local tours and other experiences in New York City this week, with one listing promising “an unforgettable shoe-shopping experience” led by a New Yorker whose bio describ...

DATE: Sep 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Exhibit allows virtual ‘interviews’ with Holocaust survivors

NEW YORK – What was it like in a Nazi concentration camp? How did you survive? How has it affected your life since? Technology is allowing people to ask these questions and many m...

DATE: Sep 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Idaho hopes to bring stargazers to first U.S. dark sky reserve

Designation would be first in the U.S.

DATE: Sep 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

Spain’s beguiling island of Menorca

MENORCA, Spain – Locals say Menorca can be reduced to three words: water, fire and stone. The Spanish island’s three essential elements are embodied in Cova d’en Xoroi, a natural ...

DATE: Sep 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel

College towns feel pinch from rental sites like Airbnb

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Time was when renting an apartment in one of this college town’s funky triple-deckers or two-family homes wouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. Now, renting in Cambri...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Travel