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Take a tour of Cisco, UT: the creepy ghost town from Thelma & Louise and...
The ghost town of Cisco, Utah is one of the most iconic ghost towns in all of America. Its been featured in movies like Thelma & Louise, Vanishing Point, and Don’t Come Knocking as well as the...
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A Visual Tour of Silicon Valley
If you are ever visiting San Francisco and have an extra day for adventure, I highly recommend jumping into the car and heading to Silicon Valley. The drive is beautiful and it is a worthwhile...
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Learning to Fly
The robin is plump and strong, her orange-red breast flashing across the yard to the nearest tree when we approach the front door. She built her nest there, above the porch light, while my parents...
View Article10 Cool Pools Around the World
Most pools are cool, technically speaking, but some are a whole heck of a lot cooler than others and luxury hotels are home to some of the coolest. Set your sights on these 10 across the globe,...
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Delta and United Put a Price on Loyalty -- Should You Pay It?
Robert S. Donovan / Flickr Delta Air Lines and United Airlines recently announced that they will start rewarding passengers based on dollars spent rather than miles flown -- a move that experts have...
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Which Travel Rewards Program Should You Join?
N i c o l a / Flickr When becoming a rewards program member, you can't pick just any loyalty program to join. Many frequent flier and hotel loyalty programs yield generous rewards, but not all of them...
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A Healer's Last Journey: Documenting Endangered Knowledge in the Colombian Andes
Mama Margarita, a Kamentsa medicine woman, holds the leaves of a frailejón plant that she uses to treat fever and migraines. Photo credit: Monika Wnuk The smell of gasoline floats through open windows...
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5 Reasons to Pack Less (Way Less)
We all know the age-old adage, "Pack everything you think you need, then take half." Unfortunately, that's not always easy advice to follow -- but traveling light is truly the best way to enjoy a...
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The 10 Best US Beaches Where You Can Drink (Legally)
By Gianni Jaccoma With the threat of a second polar vortex now safely behind us, we can wholly devote ourselves to enjoying the rest of the Summer -- namely, by gorging on sticky barbecue and drinking...
View ArticleUK University Town Face Off: Oxford vs. Cambridge
Each less than an hour from London, the cities of Cambridge and Oxford are similar in many ways—not the least of which involves their respective universities that date back more than 800 years. But the...
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This 90-Year-Old Vet Is Running Across The Country In Honor Of The 'Ship That...
Forrest Gump's got nothing on Ernie Andrus. The 90-year-old WWII veteran is the oldest person in the U.S. to run across America, according to CBS News. His goal is to raise funds and awareness for a...
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The World's Best National Dish: Which Country's Meal Is Tops?
What a culture eats can say a lot about its character. It's called cuisine, doofus, and a lot of countries have one iconic dish that is the most widely eaten thing within its borders. But how do these...
View ArticleHow People Talk About New York City
People talk about NYC like... ... it's something everybody, everywhere, must absolutely try. As if we're all at some table-clothed fancy dinner where a man in fresh-pressed dress pants and a white...
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20 Things You Didn't Know About New Zealand
1. New Zealand was the last major land mass to be populated -- it was first settled by Polynesians around 1250 and became a British colony in 1840. 2. The capitol, Wellington, is the southernmost...
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3 Great Trips Beyond Lake Bled
Lake Bled might be the synonym for Slovenia and probably rightly so. There is no way of denying, it's one of the prettiest, famous and top visited locations in the country. And it's very well aware of...
View ArticleHawaii Preps For Two Major Storms
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii residents prepared for what could be the first hurricane to hit the state in more than 20 years as weather officials said Wednesday that an approaching storm appears to have...
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A Texas State of Mind
"Alright, alright, alright," as one famous and easy-on-the-eyes Texan drawled in the classic film Dazed and Confused. In fact, those were the first words the actor Matthew McConaughey said on screen....
View ArticleStudy Finds Giant 'Superplume' Slowly Splitting Africa In Two
In 10 million years, we might have two Half-ricas, according to a new study by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the University of California at San Diego. But this isn't the doing of some...
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8 Beach Reads and the Beaches to Read Them On
These books look great with a tan. Photo by Boris Ebzeev. By Tess Falotico for Fathom | The books we read each summer are only as good as the beaches we read them on. Fathom's professional...
View ArticleVacation Travel Tips for Parents With Young Kids
At first, there was near silence except for the pervasive constant rumble of the jetliner's pressurized cabin. I could see the other passengers, but they were more silhouettes than fully-formed human...
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