Vikings haven’t pillaged the Shetland Islands in more than 500 years but a walk through its capital city of Lerwick in late January may offer the impression that the warriors still have business to...

Robert Schrader went from waiting tables to traveling the world — and he hasn’t looked back since.

Have NASA’s space tourism posters got you dreaming of hiking the canyons of Mars and gazing at the auroras of Jupiter? Don’t get fitted for a spacesuit just yet — leisure space travel is still a lo...

Visiting Hong Kong but short on time? Hong Kong embodies everything you imagine when you think about traveling to Asia. It's chaotic, frenzied, and densely populated, yet impossible not to fall in ...

Hello Kitty, the lovable feline created by Japanese-based Sanrio in 1974, has officially reached middle age, but that doesn't mean her popularity is slowing down anytime soon. Since the very first ...

With millions of parklands and thousands of trails, Washington state is an outdoor lover’s paradise. Endless landscapes include rainforests, deserts, alpine meadows, and wetland estuaries to explor...

Known for big hair and Snookie, as you’d expect, there are A LOT of weird attractions in New Jersey. From a telephone pole farm (yes, really) to secret WWII bunkers, New Jersey’s harried past is al...

Ernest Hemingway once said, “A lot of state this Idaho, that I didn’t know about.” Nestled against the western side of the continental divide of the Rocky Mountains, Northern Idaho gleams with emer...