Innsbruck is gorgeous, a place of elegant streets and squares full of brightly painted buildings, and yet you can reach…

At Bulgaria’s historic town of Bankso the skiing tops out on a plateau at an impressive 2,600m and there’s a…

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. This tiny landlocked country, sandwiched between France, Belgium, and Germany, is surrounded by rolling countryside,…

It might be the capital of Scotland, the home of vibrant festivals and the seat of Scottish power, but there’s…

The Aichi Prefecture in Japan’s Chubu Region, home to the Toyota Motor Corporation, is known as a major center of…

Itsukushima Shrine is a Shinto shrine on the island of the same name, also known as Miyajima, located in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Traditionally…

Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, is also home to the Imperial Palace and the seat of Government and Parliament….

The grandeur of a caliph’s palace, sybaritic sun-drenched Mediterranean beaches, the staccato stamp of a flamenco dancer’s heels, the awed…

There are several metal plaques on or near the Statue of Liberty. A plaque on the copper just under the…

I spend the night above Chelala Pass, near a sky burial site that lay empty. With no body left exposed…