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The Town That Refused to Die: Centralia, Pennsylvania's Endless Underground Fire
Somewhere beneath the scrubby, cracked asphalt of what used to be Route 61 in Centralia, Pennsylvania, an underground coal seam has been on fire since 1962. Smoke still seeps through fissures in the ground. The earth radiates warmth underfoot. In win...
Everyone Loves Americans — They Just Can't Stand Our Government: How the World Really Sees Us
If you have spent any time traveling outside the United States, you have probably noticed something interesting. People will tell you — sometimes to your face, always politely, occasionally with a beer in hand — that they love Americans but canno...
Little Sweden in America: The 5 Most Fascinating Swedish Enclaves You've Never Visited
Between 1850 and 1920, over 1.3 million Swedes emigrated to the United States — at one point representing the third-largest immigrant group after Germans and Irish. They settled predominantly in the Upper Midwest (Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa...
What Every American Traveler Should Know Before Visiting Serbia
Americans who make it to Serbia almost universally say the same thing afterward: they wish they had gone sooner, and they wish they had stayed longer. This is a country that operates almost entirely outside the standard Western European tourist circu...
Suriname: South America's Most Diverse and Least Visited Nation
Suriname is South America's smallest sovereign nation, its only Dutch-speaking country, and one of the continent's most ethnically diverse societies on Earth. It is also one of the most overlooked destinations in a hemisphere full of overlooked desti...
Are There Americans in Iran Right Now? The Hidden Community You Didn't Know Existed
This might surprise you: there are Americans in Iran right now. Not many, and they're not there casually but they exist, and their stories paint a more nuanced picture of US-Iran relations than the headlines suggest. Who Are the Americans in Iran?...
Why Europeans and Americans Keep Going Back to the Philippines
The question isn't why people visit the Philippines. The question is why so many Europeans and Americans visit once and keep coming back. 1. No Language Barrier The Philippines has two official languages: Filipino (Tagalog) and English. English h...
Connecticut for Business: Why America's Wealthiest State Per Capita Is a Serious Contender for Your Company
Connecticut is the third smallest US state by area and, measured by median household income and GDP per capita, historically one of the wealthiest. It sits between New York City and Boston, a geography that has always defined what it is: a sophistica...
Honduras Travel Guide 2026: What You Actually Need to Know Before You Go
Honduras is one of Central America's most misunderstood countries by international travellers. The reputation — highest homicide rates in the western hemisphere during the early 2010s, gang violence, poverty — overshadows the reality of a country wit...
What Is El Salvador Best Known For? A Traveler's Introduction
El Salvador — the smallest country in Central America and the only one without a Caribbean coastline — has a reputation that often precedes it: violence, gangs, emigration. That reputation, while rooted in a painful history, is increasingly outdated....
Is It Hard to See Sloths in Panama When You Travel?
Panama is one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth — a narrow land bridge between two continents where species from North and South America overlap. Among the most coveted wildlife sightings for visitors are sloths. Here's everything you need to...
Understanding Algerian Culture: What Every American Traveler Should Know
Algeria sits at a cultural crossroads — Arab and Amazigh (Berber) traditions run deep, French colonial influence lingers in language and architecture, and Mediterranean warmth defines daily life. For Americans, the culture can feel unfamiliar but inc...
Earthquakes in Chile: Everything a Traveler Needs to Know Before Going
Let me be honest with you right upfront: Chile has earthquakes. A lot of them. The country averages over 8,000 seismic events per year, and roughly one significant quake (magnitude 7+) every decade. If that scares you — stick around, because by t...
Business Travel in Brazil: What You Need to Know Before Your First Trip
Brazil is the ninth-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP, the largest in Latin America, and the most important business destination on the continent. It has a diversified industrial base, a massive consumer market of 215 million people, deep n...
Machu Picchu and the Inca Empire: History, Mysteries, and How to Visit
Nearly 600 years after its construction and 113 years after its re-introduction to the outside world by Hiram Bingham, Machu Picchu remains unexplained in ways that continue to fascinate. Not unexplained in the tabloid sense — the Inca built it, prob...
The Buckhorn Exchange: Denver's Oldest Restaurant and Its Wild History
Denver has no shortage of great restaurants, but none of them come close to matching the history of the Buckhorn Exchange. Open since 1893, it's the oldest restaurant in Denver, Colorado, and one of the most unusual dining experiences.
3 Countries Where You Can Get Citizenship Relatively Quickly
While second citizenship is typically acquired by birth or through length of residence, a small number of countries have changed their policies to offer citizenship in exchange for investment or residency. Here are three of the most accessible and cr...
Business Travel Guide to Morocco: Meetings, Etiquette, and Getting Around
Morocco is a compelling destination for business travel — a modern, connected economy with a sophisticated hospitality infrastructure. But it helps to understand the local business culture before you land. Here's a practical guide for anyone travelin...
Chile Travel Guide: Best Time to Visit, What Things Cost, and What to Eat
Chile is one of the most geographically extraordinary countries on earth — a sliver 4,300km long and nowhere more than 180km wide, stretching from the driest desert on the planet in the north to the sub-Antarctic wilderness of Patagonia in the so...
New Zealand's Most Successful Businesses and Industries — and Why They Work
New Zealand is a country of roughly 5 million people, 15,000 kilometres from the major markets of Europe and North America, at the end of a very long supply chain from just about everywhere. These constraints — geographical isolation, small domes...
Is Detroit Safe to Live In? What's Really Happening in the Motor City in 2026
Michigan's largest city has been the subject of two opposite narratives for the past decade: one says Detroit is a dangerous, abandoned city; the other says it's America's greatest urban revival story. The truth, as of 2026, is more nuanced than ei...
Mexico Travel Guide 2026: Beyond the Resorts — The Real Country and How to See It
Mexico is the world's 10th largest country by area, home to 130 million people, 35 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, and some of the most extraordinary cuisine, natural landscapes, and pre-Columbian history on the planet. It is also the subject of travel ...
Denver Union Station: From Wild West Railroad Hub to the Heart of a Modern City
Denver Union Station opened in 1881 and immediately established itself as one of the most important railroad junctions in the American West. At its peak, 80 trains a day passed through its platforms. Today, after a $500 million regeneration, it's the...
Should You Be Scared of Bears in Alaska?
Alaska is home to approximately 30,000 brown (grizzly) bears and 100,000 black bears — the highest densities of both species in North America. Polar bears patrol the Arctic coast. It's one of the few places on Earth where you can encounter a large ap...
Where Do Germans Travel in 2025? The Statistics, Trends, and Top Destinations
Germany is a nation of travelers. With a strong passport, generous vacation entitlements, and one of Europe's highest standards of living, Germans collectively take hundreds of millions of trips per year — and the destinations they choose, the amount...
How People Got Around Los Angeles in the 1940s — And How It Explains Everything About the City Today
Everyone knows Los Angeles as a car city. Five-lane freeways, parking minimums, the 405 at rush hour, the assumption that no one walks anywhere. But this wasn't always the case — and the story of how Los Angeles transformed from one of the world's be...
Denver's 16th Street Mall: The History Behind Colorado's Most Famous Boulevard
Walk the length of Denver's 16th Street Mall today and you'll pass chain restaurants, hotel lobbies, coffee shops, street performers, and the constant swoosh of free mall ride buses. It's pleasant and busy — Denver's version of a downtown promenade. ...
Mongolia: What Happens When You Travel to the Emptiest Country on Earth
Before anything else, the scale. Mongolia is the 18th-largest country in the world. It has roughly 3.3 million people. That gives it the lowest population density of any country on earth that isn't principally Antarctica. Large portions of it have no...
How Long Would It Take to Walk Every US State? (And Who Has Actually Done It)
The continental United States is roughly 2,800 miles wide and 1,600 miles tall. Walking it — really crossing every state on foot — is one of those challenges that sounds like a thought experiment but has, in fact, been done. Several times. By people ...
Hong Kong Apartments: Can You Actually Live in a Big Space There?
Hong Kong has a global reputation for tiny apartments. You've probably seen the viral photos: shoebox studios the size of a parking space, bunk beds stacked in what were originally industrial storage units, "coffin homes" where elderly residents re...