A rare 1931 oil portrait of Mahatma Gandhi by Clare Leighton sold for £152,800 at Bonhams’ Travel and Exploration Sale, ...

Skip the island ferries. These design-forward mainland hotels offer mountain-meets-sea views and a slower, more rooted kind ...

In a few hours or so of churning across Lake Lucerne (Switzerland’s fourth largest), those aboard the venerable vessel, the ...

The Anacapa Island Lighthouse is exactly that kind of revelation. Rising from the rugged volcanic cliffs of East Anacapa, this gleaming white tower creates a scene so picturesque it almost feels ...

The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

What makes this vista particularly special is how it captures the essence of Pennsylvania’s natural beauty in one sweeping glance – the rolling hills, the dense forests, the powerful river that has ...

Ever since the invention of the microscope, humanity has gained access to the world of the incredibly small. Scientists discovered that creatures never known to exist before are alive in an uncount… ...

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 ...

Almost all 19th-century census records were destroyed but some have been recovered as part of the Virtual Treasury project ...

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 ...

Plans to convert a 19th century Rochdale pub into flats have been put back on the table. Royds Arms sits within a conservation area of Rochdale and has been vacant for more than a year. But when ...

Lincoln County Historical Association's summer camp program teaches children ages 8-15 about 18th- and 19th-century entertainment.