When Richard Nixon visited Beijing in 1972, he ate shaved ice, locally know as bao bing, with Mao Zedong during...
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A trip to picturesque Rathlin, the only developed island off the coast of Northern Ireland, offers several things including wildlife,...
The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation covers more than two million acres of grass plains, rolling hills, and buttes running alongside...
An abandoned railway line can be a creepy place to walk alone at night with its overgrown vines, a forgotten...
Sidi Ifni is a city located on the west coast of Morocco, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, with...
There are vending machines for books, jeans, salmon, pecan pies, a vending machine to support mourners during funerals, so it's...
If you’re visiting New Zealand, the East Cape Lighthouse should be included in your plans. It is a lighthouse perched...
"Bysen'' is the creature who haunts the woods of Gotland, in Sweden's largest island. Most of the time he takes...
Cape Bojeador Lighthouse, in the Philippines, also known as Burgos Lighthouse, is a cultural heritage structure in Burgos, Ilocos Norte,...
The Kill van Kull is a tidal strait between Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey, that connects Upper...
At the Southern edge of Anclote Key, Florida, a spindly red-brown tower rises above the surrounding treeline, topping out at...
A nondescript gravel road leads to a quaint old stubby lighthouse on the furthest point east in Maine and, indeed,...
The discovery of gold at Ballarat in 1851 sparked Victoria’s famous gold rush of the 1850s. This led to the...
In the late 1950s, a school district in Washington’s Yakima Valley received an excess of subsidized cheese. Faced with this...
The Seaman’s Memorial is a tower about 25-meters high that stands at the entrance to Conn Brown Harbor in Aransas...
Every full moon has at least one nickname, dating back to the days when Native American tribes and Colonial Americans...
Blackhead Lighthouse, located only half an hour from Belfast and on the Causeway Coastal Route, was built in 1902. It...
At 6,962 metres (22,840ft), Mt. Aconcagua is the tallest peak in the Americas and, nestled high in the Andes near...
Galley Head Lighthouse rises an imposing 53m above the roaring Atlantic ocean outside of Rosscarbery, County Cork, on the south...
Many people have had conversations about the "abandoned Hillandale bridge to nowhere" and some even have reach it, either with...
Larnach Castle, one of only two castles in all of New Zealand, has a rich history, spotted with family drama,...
The Rakfisk dates back to the ancient Scandinavian culturem when peoples needed to store food over a considerable period of...
In some areas of England, during the late medieval and early Tudor periods, especially through the reign of King Edward...
A modern child would probably be disappointed by the goodies found in the Christmas stockings of the past. In the...
If you arent't lucky enough to have been born in Iceland, or not have visited the island through a Christmas...
In the early 1940s, tensions were high in Finland, as locals suspected that the Soviet Union, not satisfied with the...
Inside an ancient churchyard in London an ash tree is encircled with hundreds of overlapping gravestones, placed there by classic...
Norfolk Island is tiny, both in size and population. It is an Australian territory hundreds of miles from the mainland,...
Apparently, four kinds of pie were traditional for Thanksgiving: mince, cranberry, pumpkin, and a kind called Marlborough, a glorification of...
In Russia, where Christmas was banned in 1928 during Bolshevik rule and not reinstated until 1991, New Year’s Eve has...
