A playground for the slow travel elite, starting at $80,000 a night, the “L’Observatoire” suite aboard the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express is train travel, but not as you know it.

I had just started joined the paved bridleway which leads along the riverbank towards Cheadle Heath and Heaton Mersey. A long ...

Borobudur’s significance declined sharply, not only from volcanic damage but also due to the fall of its patron dynasty and ...

Ever wonder what secrets lie beneath the stones of ancient ruins? There’s something almost magical about standing where ...

The pyramids on the Giza plateau west of Cairo are almost certainly the prime attraction for visitors to Egypt and they may ...

Egypt, third millennium b.c. The Great Pyramid of Giza is both the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing. Built by the pharaoh Khufu (reigned ca. 2551–2528 b.c.) to serve as his ...

Two people lie on the ground looking up at a London skyscraper in the latest artwork thought to be by graffiti artist Banksy. The work shows a child in a beanie hat and wellingtons lying on the floor ...

This article was featured in New York ’s One Great Story newsletter. My grandfather Sidney Lipsyte, the son of immigrants ...

It's at Miami's Museum of Graffiti, which bills itself as the first museum in the world dedicated to graffiti and street art. The museum is located in Miami's Wynwood neighborhood, an art-forward ...

The story of the highly skilled workers who helped build Egypt’s Great Pyramid is emerging from a papyrus cache unearthed at the world’s oldest harbor On a summer afternoon around 4,600 years ago, ...

Beginning with its construction in the fourth century B.C. and continuing for more than 800 years, the Temple of Isis on the small island of Philae, set where the Nile flowed out of Nubia, was visited ...

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