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Harmeet Kaur, CNN There are those who take photos and those who make photos, to paraphrase the legendary photographer Ansel Adams. Michelle Watt is…

By Melissa Mahtani, CNN Love them or loathe them, as the travel world re-opens, influencers are back on the move. That’s welcome news for some…

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Ryanair has come under fire for asking South African travelers to take an Afrikaans test to prove their nationality…

By Forrest Brown, CNN Once every four years, influential Texas Monthly magazine comes out with one of its most highly anticipated cover stories. And…

Melanie Swan, CNN The UAE may have only just celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence but Abu Dhabi has a centuries-old past. The largest of…

Heather Chen, CNN Visiting the world’s largest Buddhist temple is about to get expensive. Borobudur, one of Indonesia’s most popular…

Megan C. Hills Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations were full of lavish pageantry to mark the British monarch’s…

Zoe Sottile, CNN Several ancient works of art at the Dallas Museum of Art, including Greek vessels crafted thousands of years ago, were damaged by an…

Ziyu Zhang, CNN An opulent 260-year-old gilded carriage hit London streets again for the first time in two decades, beaming a hologram of a young…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN A new ship design concept from Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein could be the first step toward a zero-emission future for…

By Emiko Jozuka and Yuki Kurihara, CNN Sailing solo across the world’s largest ocean once is enough of an achievement. But 83-year-old Japanese…

By Jennifer Henderson and Paradise Afshar, CNN Some wedding chapels in Las Vegas are receiving cease-and-desist letters demanding they stop using…

Leah Dolan, CNN | Video: Angelica Pursley, CNN; Max Burnell, CNN As Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, the Queen is both a cherished and…

By Stephanie Busari, CNN Kunle Adeyanju is a self-confessed daredevil who has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro twice and cycled from Lagos to Accra over…

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN After spending several years renovating a nearly finished California home with his husband, the last thing graphic…

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…