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This Latin American Country Boasts Architecture That's Even Sexier Than Its Beaches

Brazil and I are in a fight, and it's all my fault, really.

The History of Nutella: All's Fair in Love, War, and Chocolate

France's Fête des Lumières Is a Light Festival Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen

France's Fête des Lumières Is a Light Festival Unlike Anything You've Ever Seen

Paris may be the City of Light, but you need to head further south to witness France's greatest illuminated achievement: Lyon's "Fête des Lumières."

This Czech Chapel Is Decorated With Human Bones

The Czech Republic’s Cemetery Church of All Saints isn’t your average European cathedral, and it's pretty easy to see why: It’s home to the Sedlec Ossuary, a Roman-Catholic chapel in Kutná Hora and home to the repurposed skeletons of approximately 40,000-70,000 dead people.

This Czech Chapel Is Decorated With Human Bones

12 Incredible Ruins You Can Easily Visit

Ruins, despite what fedora-wearing archaeologists would have you believe, do not exist solely to be hacked and slashed so that you can acquire their sweet, sweet artifacts.

You Can Finally Take a Legal Ferry to Cuba

It seems like getting to Cuba gets a little easier every day.

New Howe Caverns Tour Takes You Where No Tourist Has Gone Before

Those who got to the end of the traditional Howe Caverns tour in upstate New York (who hasn't?!) and were left craving more cave are in luck: a section of the cave that's been closed since 1900 is finally opening to the public.

17 of the oldest hotels in the world

Quick, name the oldest business in the world!

Visit Cuba (legally) on this new yacht excursion

While it’s easier for Americans to visit Cuba now more than ever, it’s still pretty frickin' complicated.

The house that tequila built

The composer Gustav Mahler once said that “tradition is laziness”, but Mahler never had to preserve the beating heart of a tequila distillery for 144 years.