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One of my favorite Paris monuments: France’s World War I leader striding through the wind and rain

These casual-looking friends are seated as a group in the Louvre’s Cour Pugetl

The “oldest and largest, among the most spectacular in the world” Roman amphitheater wasn’t, and the man who built it and charged visitors €40 apiece to tour it is going to jail.

In a story that seems unbelievable in hindsight, Franco Malosso von Rosenfranz claimed to have discovered the site near Vicenza in northern Italy after a landslide in 2005. He was successful a...

The Drogarati Cave is located close to the port of Sami on Kefalonia’s east coast. It was discovered some 300 years ago when an earthquake created a large fissure in the surrounding rocks that allowed access to the ground below. The cave was opened to the public in 1963.

There are impressive formations of stalactites and stalagmites. It is thought that the cave...

Flowers are well-known as both a major export and a tourist attraction in the Netherlands. But on a visit to Amsterdam this summer, we were treated to a few beautiful flower-bedecked courses at Restaurant De Kas. Spoiler alert: they were also delicious.

De Kas is situated just inside East Amsterdam’s Frankendael Park, in a former municipal greenhouse built in the mid 1...