With the summer tourist swarms behind, fall and winter are actually two of the best times to visit Europe (Oktoberfest aside). Flights are cheap and tours will be half-dead, which makes it a perfec...

Nuclear explosions, radiation and a mass evacuation -- an accident happened, and a tragic one at that 25+ years ago. For those familiar with the Chernobyl disaster that devastated inhabitants of Uk...

A literal “once-in-a-lifetime” experience implies the kind of adventure that not everyone can live to tell. The most extreme trips in the world all offer some physical risk, but plenty of incompara...