National Geographic Explorers celebrate the greatest American treasures—mountains, forests, wetlands and canyons—from sea to ...

Released on November 9, 2005, Confessions on a Dance Floor found Madonna ready to party. “When I wrote American Life,” the ...

What makes a sport American? Fans leave clues at a Florida pickleball party, a Charleston crawfish-eating contest and Vince ...

"The Taj Mahal shows three faces,” says Nicholas Wapshott, a British writer, journalist, and father. “In the early morning, ...

In the 50 years since its inception, hip-hop has become a powerful force to be reckoned with. Born in the Bronx and raised by Black culture, hip-hop started as a unique form of musical expression ...

Across the globe, the stereotype of Canada, when seen through an American lens, is that it’s a country inhabited by extremely polite people with the exception of Wolverine. But Canadians, when push ...

Statues across Boston have recently sported a new accessory: traffic cones perched on their bronze heads. The pointy headgear is the doing of Scotland’s high-spirited Tartan Army, which has descended ...

Rating: 2.5 out of 5. The first time I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind, my world opened up. At 10, I carried around actor Bob Balaban’s diary of the film’s making, obsessed with every detail.

Do you need to win multiple World Cups to be considered the greatest soccer player of all time? Or is one simply enough? But Messi is back for more. And can another win for Argentina vault him over ...

A disastrous restoration job on religious statues in Brazil left the Holy Family looking like ridiculous cartoons — and the botched spruce-up was so bad that it became an instant tourist attraction.

You’re a tourist in the ancient Mediterranean. Where do you go? Easy: Do a tour of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The idea for a consolidated list of wonderful man-made monuments came from ...