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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN In the lead-up to Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, marking 70 years of her reign, there has been no…

Sarah Sekula, CNN Clickety clack sounds. Steam whistles. Conductors sporting overalls. What’s not to love about train travel? In a world of…

Francesca Street, CNN The sun was starting to set over Skara Brae, a prehistoric stone village on the Orkney Islands, an archipelago off the most…

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN In a photograph by Tommy Kha, the artist, dressed as Elvis Presley in a bedazzled low-cut white suit, stares at the viewer from…

By Foren Clark, CNN The roots of French cooking run deep. The foundations of the country’s culinary empire were laid as early as the mid-1600s…

By Emily Smith, CNN Nearly two decades after her death, Julia Child’s can-do attitude and love for food still resonates with professional chefs…

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The “Mona Lisa” was the subject of attempted vandalism on Sunday when a visitor to the world-famous Louvre museum in…

Story by Rebecca Cairns, CNN; Video by Hazel Pfeifer, CNN Sassy, hardy, and vicious: that’s how yellow-eyed penguins are fondly described by…

By Forrest Brown, CNN It seems so eternal, doesn’t it? The gleaming white marble. The massive columns. The huge statue of a man sitting…

Heather Chen, CNN A glass-bottomed walkway in Vietnam, which opened to much public fanfare in April, has been declared the world’s longest…

Foren Clark, CNN In the new CNN Original Series “Nomad with Carlton McCoy,” master sommelier McCoy is on the hunt for authenticity in…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The world’s largest bottle of whiskey, called “The Intrepid,” has sold for about $1.4 million, according to the…

Jacopo Prisco Kareema Hassan was at her local mosque in Toronto, Canada, for a nightly prayer called Taraweeh — camera and tripod in tow…

Julia Buckley, CNN Summer in the northern hemisphere is hotting up, travel chaos reigns, and tourists are intent on having some “revenge…

By Marnie Hunter, CNN Gas prices and Covid cases are high as the US rolls into Memorial Day weekend and the busy summer travel season. The tangled…

By Jordyn Haime, CNN In January, news that Japan had plans to nominate several gold and silver mines on Sado Island as a UNESCO World Heritage site…

Leah Dolan, CNN As the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival draws to a close, there were plenty of eye-catching fashion moments on show, with celebrities…

Rhea Mogul, CNN Indian author Geetanjali Shree has won the International Booker Prize — making her the first writer from the South Asian nation…

Oscar Holland, CNN | Teele Rebane, CNN For almost 25 years, the soaring “Pillar of Shame” stood on the University of Hong Kong (HKU)…

By Jeanine Barone, CNN Traveling to a paradise on Earth doesn’t necessarily require a long, arduous or perilous journey. In fact, an unspoiled…

By Hafsa Khalil Four US engineering students were brainstorming the perfect invention for their product design course, when lunch inspiration —…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN A collection of treasures from Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctica voyage has been sold at auction in London this week. The…

Francesca Street, CNN The summer Tim Thomas was 18, he packed up a rucksack, left his small hometown in the south of England and hopped on a train to…

Oscar Holland, CNN | Jacqui Palumbo, CNN A judge has blocked the sale of a pinafore dress worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz”…

Leah Dolan, CNN Madonna and FKA Twigs were spotted front row at the Central Saint Martins (CSM) undergraduate fashion show on Tuesday. The…

Janelle Davis, CNN A single meal forever changed Julia Child‘s life and American kitchens with it. It featured a mild, white-fleshed fish…

By Marnie Hunter, CNN A wild expanse on North Carolina’s Outer Banks has earned the top spot on an annual list of America’s best beaches.…

By Serenitie Wang, CNN When I made up my mind to travel outside of Hong Kong in early March, the city’s daily Covid-19 case count had just…

Barry Neild, CNN A huge new subterranean railway whisked fare-paying passengers deep beneath the streets of London for the first time on Tuesday as…

Ann Binlot, CNN In much of Western art, Asian women have often appeared as one-dimensional characters — sometimes seen as meek and docile, and…

It’s set to be a very hot summer for travel. Travel organization AAA is estimating that 39.2 million people will travel over the Memorial Day…