The pumps, over 2,000 of them around the city, were once the city's main water supply. Berlin is sitting on very wet land, and clean groundwater is quite close to the surface. At one point in the 19th ...

American Airlines is trying a new tool to discourage so-called 'gate lice,' passengers who crowd the boarding gate and try to board before their group is called, often because they are afraid of not ...

The Holy Resurrection Church represents the Russian Orthodox faith. Its characteristic blue domes make it one of the most recognized structures in Kodiak.

Humans have been fascinated by displays of the aurora for thousands of years. Innuits thought the lights were the souls of dead people playing football with a walrus head. In China and Russia, people ...

On a recent trip to Cincinnati, Ohio we decided to cross the river into Kentucky and try some real bourbon. Neither my husband or I are nornally bourbon drinkers, but we had to try some while in the ...

Driving past a restaurant near Mödling in Austria, we saw this huge pink vehicle sitting in its almost empty car park. We just had to pull in to take a closer look. It turned out to be a Cadillac ...

Major museum exhibitions can sometimes feel like nostalgia trips, if you are, or think you are, familiar with the artists or movement represented. And sometimes they can turn out to offer fascinating ...

Spain is creating a single national registry to weed out illegal rentals and eventually connect with a Europe-wide registry ...

Paul Heymont takes a loving look at the Paris buildings created at the turn of the last century by Jules Lavirotte, one of ...

A visit to a nomadic Berber encampment. The tent-like structures are situated on the edge of the Sahara Desert and are easily ...

As regular Travel Gumbo readers know, I took a Holland America Line (HAL) cruise to Alaska this year. I can only say good things about the ship, its crew, and the fantastic things I saw on the ship ...