Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ageing survivors are urging the world to remember what was lost – and to imagine a ...

It's located just a 90-minute drive from Charleston, but it feels like another world. Old Salkehatchie Plantation meanders ...

St. Kolbe was captured by the German occupiers of Poland on Feb. 17, 1941 – first placed in the murderous Pawiak Gestapo ...

From redwood-rimmed black sand beaches to romantic, Mediterranean-esque villages, these are the most relaxing beach towns in ...

Maggie Q shares her 'Zen' mornings — and why she sleeps separately from her partner. The actress, 46, who stars in the new ...

Once called the “quietest place on earth” by acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton, cofounder of Quiet Parks International, the 52-squaremile park’s silence owes in part to the 10,000-foot ...

Sadako Sasaki was just two when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Though she survived the blast, she later developed ...

The propaganda loudspeakers that have long tormented soldiers and civilians alike near the inter-Korean border finally fell silent on Thursday. This hard-earned tranquility arrived after a year of ...

I have had a strange feeling of peace and contentment lately and I didn’t really know why. But I accepted it as a random blessing and smiled. Today a jet screeched over my home, and then another ...

We often pair it with “quiet,” suggesting peace is an absence of sound. As a former teacher, I remember calming a wild and crazy, wound-up classroom by playing a game of alternating “make ...