A gorgeous hike in the summer months, the peak of Mt. Wachusett is 2,006 ft., making it the tallest mountain in Worcester ...

Little puffs of smoke drifted skyward from the stack of the brightly painted Jupiter steam locomotive, its red, blue and gold trim gleaming beneath the desert sun. The engineer leaned out of the cab, ...

The 12-foot bird roamed the country for 4,000 years until they became extinct about 600 years ago, mainly because of ...

South Carolina is home to nine remaining lighthouses, while at least another 10 have been lost time. Here's a rundown of the ...

The Strasburg Rail Road stands proudly in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, where horse-drawn buggies share roads with automobiles and time seems to move at a more deliberate, thoughtful pace.

This isn’t your typical tourist trap with actors pretending and props standing in for the real thing—these are authentic vintage steam locomotives pulling meticulously restored passenger cars through ...

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin supreme court ruled to overturn the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban, determining that a more recent law, criminalising abortions only when the fetus is viable ...

(Reuters) -Wisconsin's top state court ruled on Wednesday that an 1849 state law banning abortion in virtually all cases cannot be enforced, rejecting claims it had been revived after a landmark U ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the individual cell blocks that were ranged radially around the tower ...

Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery.

In a New York that still glowed amber-gold after dark from sodium streetlamps, the Tunnel nightclub distinguished itself for a seediness that appears, in retrospect, almost incredible. From 1986 to ...