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Parisians are rude, London is expensive and everyone in Barcelona washes down a huge paella with a liter of sangria. While European stereotypes live off of exaggeration, there’s always a hint of truth to them somewhere. As a global city with a long tradition of liberal policies,...

Hidden away in a small fishing village in Cape Breton lies the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site, a dense collection of rare ephemera from the life of one of the world’s greatest inventors. Baddeck, Nova Scotia was home to Bell and his family for over 30...

Film posters are still painted by hand on the front of Filmtheater Sendlinger Tor, a 100 year-old movie theater just outside Sendlinger Tor, the southern gates of the Altstadt (historical city center). The theater opened in October 1913 with a showing of the Italian silent...

Running through 21 miles of caves and passages, the long river that flows through the Bluespring Caverns has harbored a staggering concentration of albino, sometimes nearly see-through, amphibians and other aquatic creatures. The Bluesrping Caverns were first discovered in the...

How can one not walk into a building with No Man’s Land Historical Museum carved in stone above the door?  And when you enter, you will enter a kind of time capsule, with its own rhythms, expressed with care.  Founded in the 1930’s, this is not a modern high...

The National Museum of Namibia has, for many years, been housed in the Alte Feste, an old German Fort in the capital of Windhoek.  In March 2014, the material related to the independence movement has moved to the new Independence Museum.  The National Museum of Namibia...

One of the most magical places of antiquity is undoubtedly the Garden of the Hesperides where it is said that under the care of the nymphs of the evening, the golden apples that provided knowledge grew, the very same apples that were stolen by Hercules after killing the Ladon...

At 173 feet tall, the wooden tribal totem in Alert Bay, British Colombia is demonstrably the tallest tower of its kind in the entire world, but many people have argued that for a number of reasons it is not worthy of the surprisingly contentious title.  Despite the raw...

From the moment you get off the Ferry on Naoshima Island, you are likely to surprised by art.  Some are part of the original impulse of the Bennesse gift, others have been inspired to join in the treasure making.  Since creations have been woven in all over the island,...