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You might want to sleep with the lights on in one of these 100+ historic hotels in the USA reported to have friendly ghosts. From spooky hotel tours and spirited stories to real life hauntings, these members of the Historic Hotels of America are worth visiting any time of year, especially around Halloween.
Here’s your guide to the best NYC parks in each borough for multi-colored fall foliage magic, including white oak trees whose leaves turn purple, and maples whose reds, oranges and yellow epitomize fall color.
The tourists have gone home, the kids have gone back to school, sweltering temperatures have tamed to tolerable levels, and hotels have reduced their peak summer rates. It’s an ideal time to enjoy the crisp autumn air and the technicolor palette that Mother Nature serves up each autumn. Here are my favorite places in the USA and Canada and for a fall getaway.
Reminder to buy your Epic Pass before prices increase on Sept. 7 for the upcoming season of skiing and riding at top resorts around the world. Buying now also gives you access for late summer and fall scenic rides on chairlifts and gondolas, VIP access to summer festivals, and other perks. Warning – The longer
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Take the train and avoid long airport check-in lines, flight delays and cancellations and high gas prices for road trips. These are the best scenic train trips in the USA, ranging from a few hours to a few days, including on vintage steam trains.
United describes it as the largest expansion in its history – adding ten new non-stop destinations in Europe and Asia starting in Spring 2027, plus new wide-body jets to service them. Tickets are on sale now. The new nonstop flights are to Okinawa, Japan; Toulouse, France; Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Marseille, France; Ibiza, Spain; Valencia, Spain;
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These picturesque and iconic courses are where many champions learned to play, competed and made history, including World Golf Hall of Fame inductees, and where US Presidents, Supreme Court justices, film and theater celebrities and others have played.
UNESCO has added two theaters in the Brazilian Amazon to its World Heritage List. The Amazonia Theaters comprise Theatro da Paz in Belem, Para state, and Teatro Amazonas in Manaus, Amazonas state. Both were built in the late 19th century at the height of the rubber boom, and combine European architectural influences with local materials and symbols.
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This is the 81st anniversary of the start of the Nuclear Age – the only time an atomic bomb has been used in warfare, and a good time to reflect on the worldwide danger. There are several places in Hiroshima and Nagasaki which memorialize their destruction, the fortitude of the Japanese people to rebuild their cities and their lives and hope for the future in a world without nuclear war.
Club Med returns to the USA with the acquisition and planned redevelopment of the iconic Carambola Beach Resort, on the island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. That means no passport is needed for US passport holders to visit one of the storied locations in the Caribbean, marking the return of Club Med
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