Day

Zombies! Evil janitors! Mad scientists! The top 10 haunted houses in the United States are especially spooky this year. Need Halloween weekend plans? Make a trip one of these top 10 haunted houses in the U.S., as selected by the Haunted Attraction Association. (Yes, that’s...

Just off one of the busiest streets in KL, where night life is concerned, this warm, cozy deli, Mediteca, makes a strong case for the pleasures of cicchetti e ombre, or bite-size eats with good wine. Tonight, the place would be decorated with art and paintings and we would be...

I GENERALLY try to prepare as little as possible in all aspects of my life. I tell others it’s more fun this way, and that I like to see where the wind will take me. But to be brutally honest, I’m hideously lazy and utterly scatterbrained. So, I find anything involving any real...

Trekkers heading to Annapurna Base Camp. Pic: Joanne Lane, www.visitedplanet.com IN the aftermath of the recent hiking disaster in which at least 41 people were killed when a blizzard and avalanches swept across Nepal’s Annapurna region, the Nepal government has promised to...

Paris has a reputation of being romantic, fashionable, and as most are quick to add, expensive. While the food is almost always amazing, a nice dinner in the City of Lights can run up quite a tab. We highly recommend treating yourself to a classic French meal, but for those other...

The SoHotel is centered in the pulsing heart of downtown New York. Photo: SoHotel It’s no secret that hotel rooms in New York are expensive, but there are deals to be had if you know where to look. And these deals are not limited to far-flung locations or flea-bag motels. In...

Birmingham, the UK’s second-biggest city in terms of population, is no London copy. The West Midlands city is full of classic Victorian buildings and bold contemporary architecture alike. Historically an important center of manufacturing and modern industry, Birmingham has more...

Perched atop the fire house in Lincoln, Illinois is a lone phone box that seems to have simply fallen out of the sky and landed on the building, but in fact the glass phone enclosure was installed to help warn against massive storms. During the 1960s weather prediction technology...

Created in 1966 as an eye-grabbing restaurant advertisement along Route 66, the displaced muffler man known as Paul Bunyon (sic) still holds his precious hot dog for all to see even after being moved from his original spot. The oversized fiberglass novelty was first installed on...

The history of Africa, and the Rift Valley in particular, is not a static one. Throughout history, the movement of different groups of people – hunter-gatherers, pastoralists, agriculturalists – have created one of the most unique and complex landscapes on the planet....