Museum visitors will be able to share their cultural passions in a social networking website.
February 24, 2009
Museum visitors will also be able to meet online
Museum visitors will be able to share their cultural passions in a social networking website.
A group of the UK’s most famous museums, including the British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, is creating a collective website.
‘Dancing lights’ draw thousands to frozen north
December 14, 2008
Winter travelers trek thousands of miles to the frozen north each year seeking the sky’s “dancing lights,” which provoke awe, excitement and, some say, sex.
‘Flightseeing’: Experience the world from on high
December 13, 2008
Visitors to Australia can experience the brilliant colors of the Great Barrier Reef from a floatplane and land on the water among the Whitsunday Islands.
The hum of the single-engine Cessna fills your ears as you ascend above the Peruvian high desert. Below you, flat expanses of dry, brown earth extend in every direction, punctuated only by twisting dry riverbeds … a lifeless landscape. Then the plane banks, and over the intercom the pilot directs you to look at what appear to be just another set of curving, squiggly lines.
Palm Desert: California’s capital of cool
December 4, 2008
Palm Desert: California
The first thing Laura Slipak says when I drag my stressed self into the chill lobby of the Mod Resort, her Austin Powers-chic hotel in Palm Desert: “Oh, dear.”
New center offers warmer welcome to Capitol tourists
December 3, 2008
The underground visitor center, seen here under construction, has skylights allowing views of the Capitol.
The days of having nothing but an idle outdoor wait ahead of a U.S. Capitol tour appear to be over.
Witnessing the power of faith in Fatima, Portugal
November 29, 2008
Pilgrims and tourists alike are drawn to Fatima, where Mary appeared to three children in 1917.
In what might be mistaken for a God-forsaken corner of central Portugal, tens of thousands witnessed an apparition — and the lonely little town of Fatima became a major pilgrimage site for Catholics.
Vibrant Buenos Aires can be easy on the wallet
November 27, 2008
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) — Vegetarians, beware. It’s Wednesday night at the Garden House Hostel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the unmistakable scent of juicy slabs of meat on the grill is wafting through the halls, luring guests to its source.
TSA boosts ‘behavior detection,’ mulls other changes
November 20, 2008
This holiday season, it
This holiday season, it’s still shoes off and liquids out at airport security, but changes may be on the way to part of this routine, and agents will be watching much more than the contents of your carry-on.
Dinner and a show in Portland’s Pearl District
November 19, 2008
The Gerding Theater at the Armory has been transformed after its $36 million eco-renovation.
The old warehouses of Portland’s Pearl District are home to increasingly cool cultural diversions. Spend a weekend browsing the neighborhood’s art galleries, snack on a pumpkin-pie cupcake and enjoy dinner and a show.
Orlando on the cheap
November 18, 2008
A young visitor watches the parade at Walt Disney World.
I hate saying no.