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How far in advance should you reserve your hotel room? Not surprisingly, that depends on several factors! After painstaking research, you find a hotel in Rome that perfectly fits your trip. Great location, cute décor, friendly management, nice bathrooms, and free Wi-Fi....

The River Thames links London together as much as it also marks out that oh-so-important north / south city divide that locals feel so passionate about. But this month, the Thames Festival Trust, who have organized many exciting events along the river over the last 16 years, is...

In Pittsburgh’s steel-making heyday, Carrie Furnaces smelted over 1,000 tons of iron per day for local mills. Now, after shutting down in 1982, all that remains of the site is a rusting 92-foot tall edifice with Furnaces 6 and 7. Built in 1886, the Carrie Furnaces formed...

A labyrinthian early neolithic catacomb complex and the burial ground of about… 7000 bodies or so. Inhabitants of the small and arid island nation Malta have been digging cisterns for water storage for eons, but in 1902, while laborers worked on one, they stumbled into one...

Lounging near a Grecian hilltop, the ancient stone Lion of Kea is remarkable not only for its relatively good condition, but also for its oddly sunny demeanor.  Carved sometime prior to 600 BCE, the lion is carved from a natural stone slab, some say by the same architect who...

The transatlantic slave trade is largely consigned to public consciousness and history textbooks, but there exists many places where the full force of humanity’s cruelty can still be heartbreakingly felt, even if the place didn’t see much slavery itself. The House of...

Housed in the gatehouse of a former Victorian gasworks, Britain’s Natural Gas Museum collects the artifacts and machinery of the world’s rich history of gas power.  Open since 1977, the Natural Gas Museum was started by a national trust that has set out to make...