Dan Smith

In the 1980s, New Jersey was home to an amusement park so notorious that locals nicknamed it “Traction Park.” Action Park,...

Something strange is happening in Germany and Austria, and it’s got the internet scratching its head and laughing at the same...

Across the country, a large number of Americans are using their vacation days to sleep rather than to travel. A recent...

When you’re packing up to leave a hotel, not everything has to stay behind. Sure, the robe and Bluetooth speaker are...

When you glance out your airplane window at 30,000 feet, that curved little portal seems like a simple design choice. But...

At the very top of the Eiffel Tower, Gustave Eiffel kept a small private apartment. He finished it in 1889 as...

Just across the water from Manhattan, there’s an island few people ever talk about, and almost no one is allowed to...

If every state had to break off and run independently, not all would sink. A few could genuinely hold their own;...

Popular holiday spots get most of the attention in December, but that often means high prices, heavy crowds, and long travel...

On Fifth Avenue sits a limestone mansion that once belonged to steel magnate Henry Clay Frick. It was built in 1914,...