September 4, 2019Australian artists Gillie and Marc Schattner have unveiled 10 bronze statues of famous women, including Oprah and Jane Goodall, in an NYC installation to counter the lack of gender equality in public art.
September 3, 2019Los Angeles' Dearly Departed museum offers a range of macabre mementos and grisly tours of Hollywood deaths, but none more popular this year than the site of Charles Manson's murder of actress Sharon Tate exactly 50 years ago.
August 30, 2019Dr Seuss is hitting the road this fall in north America with a large interactive exhibit that will immerse visitors in some of the most iconic books by the beloved children's writer.
August 26, 2019Cuba's constitution guarantees its people access to its beaches, but many locals are unable to enjoy the island’s pristine white sands and crystal clear blue waters.
August 24, 2019During Barack Obama’s tenure as President of the United States, he twice took his family including his mother-in-law for a vacation at the 55°S “end of the world” Patagonia National Park. This park has a total area of more than 1,000,000 sq km of wilderness.
August 22, 2019For decades, the curving mural depicting a golden sun has greeted visitors to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. No one seemed to know who had painted the scene adorning the Coliseum’s main archway – or when.
August 21, 2019Students at Kansas City Art Institute interviewed veterans about isolation and loneliness, and then created the portraits which are paired with a scannable QR code to hear each veteran's story.
August 18, 2019A Virginia Museum of Fine Arts project, called “The Hopper Hotel Experience,” offers visitors the chance to sleepover in a recreation of Edward Hopper’s 1957 'Western Motel'.
August 15, 2019What do Christopher Columbus, James Cook and Vasco da Gama have in common? They are all great maritime explorers. And now, you can join this league of extraordinary men – but with a touch of luxury, that is.
French luxury cruise line Ponant has partnered with National Geographic Expeditions to create an extensive range of expedition...
August 10, 2019One of the farthest and most fascinating places Malaysians should aspire to visit are the Galapagos Islands in South America. Of all the extraordinary native animals, the one that stood out were the giant tortoises. The name “galapago”, is an old Spanish word for tortoise.
July 31, 2019There is nowhere in the world that can compare to New York City ... at least that's what we've learnt from the many TV shows and films set in the Big Apple.
July 29, 2019If your idea of the perfect place to stay is on the moon or you've always wanted to be an astronaut and explore the unknown in outer space, you might be keen to take a look at these unique accommodations.
July 24, 2019New sites have been added to Unesco's World Heritage List, including Jaipur City in India; Writing-on-Stone, an ancient and sacred landscape for Indigenous peoples in Canada; and the Mounded Tombs of Ancient Japan.
July 9, 2019The Trans World Flight Center has been given a new lease of life as a luxury hotel. Hotel group MCR acquired a 75-year lease on the building in 2015 and has turned it into the centrepiece of a new hotel complex, the TWA Hotel.
July 6, 2019It has the reputation of being in one of the most remote parts of Alaska in the United States, and if that wasn’t enough to grab my attention, the deal was “sweetened” with a warning that it would be freezing cold with heavy snow in the mountains, even in the summer season.
As the name suggests, Trimble Glacier is a glacier with...
June 30, 2019Sargassum is a thick seaweed that has not only turned the crystalline waters of the coast of southwestern Mexico brown, but also fills the air with a rotten-egg smell.
June 27, 2019Attention, Grand Canyon visitors, watch your step before attempting a selfie from the edge of the vertiginously deep and perilously steep landmark in the United States.
The national park surrounding the enormous canyon – the second-most visited US national park – has experienced a distressing surge in fatal accidents, with at...
June 13, 2019Check out the hotel where John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their non-violent protests against the Vietnam War in 1969, on its 50th anniversary.
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