Travel and Places

If you live in or are visiting Pittsburgh during Christmas time, be sure to catch the city's famed holiday lights. You can see the main attractions on foot in about an hour. It's fun, it's free and it's colorful.

The most famous of wax museums due to Madame's skills, personality, and business sense. Her life-like figures are seen around the world. Royalty, sports figures, celebrities, and other famous characters.

Quebec's Gare de Témiscaming / Témiscaming Station dates from 1927 and has some ornate features. It is now an historic monument and houses a museum, with strengths in the history of immigration to western Quebec.

I had problems with the names of things, the difference in voltage for electrical appliances, as well as navigating relationships. These are only a few of my mishaps living in Spain for 2 years.

This article presents the 4 places that were not covered in part 1. These 4 places and their surrounding attractions are in Central Park and Upper Manhattan, off the beaten path, and they'll will make your visit unique and memorable. The link to part 1 is below.

Mostly off the beaten path, from Upper Manhattan to Lower Manhattan and in Queens, 8 places and their surrounding attractions that will make your visit unique and memorable. NB: this article is in 2 parts.

The first impressions are probably different for all types of tourists. Harmless attempts often bring results and promote sustainable development in many peoples’ lives

In the early 1970s, Paul was finishing a Taiwan tour in the Navy and returning to that island as a civilian. This article reflects on the Taipei Songshan International Airport and the U.S. military presence in Taipei. It also remembers trips to eastern Taiwan, cross-island, and down to the south.

The 100 Acre Wood Preserve in Houston offers hikers and mountain bikers a place of natural beauty that includes wetlands, forests, and some open prairie.

With only INR 500 in my pocket, this budget trip to Mysore via Bangalore from Mumbai, was the most memorable trip of my life. This tight budget journey was possible as I had lived in Bangalore and Mysore/ Mysuru.

Tweed, Ontario, has a small Jailhouse — said to be North America's smallest — dating from 1898, which had to close in 1950 for lack of a 'clientele'...

At the end of the 19th century, over 100,000 people traveled to the Yukon region of Canada searching for adventure and fortune. People from all walks of life sought to escape the economic depression of 1896 by searching for gold in a remote land. Unfortunately, few acquired the riches they sought.

No can imagine a small town of Taxila, Pakistan, was once a cosmopolitan city that was home to the best minds of the ancient world. Chanakya, Vishnugupta and Charaka completed their masterpieces here in the Takshila University.

The Mogul emperor Akbar shifted from Delhi to Fatehpur Sikri about 160 km from Delhi and built his palace there. He abandoned the place in 1586 due to shortage of water.

The juxtaposition of snow capped mountains and a bustling Downtown area at Ketchikan gives honest meaning to the word 'unique', here, at Alaska's First City.

Norway Bay, in Quebec's Bristol municipality, in Outaouais, has long had a transient population; it was formerly linked across the Rivière des Outaouais / Ottawa River to Ontario by a regular ferry.

If you come to Boston for a visit and wonder where to go to explore the city on foot, the West End neighborhood won't be what most people will recommend at first. They could be wrong, though, and this article tells you why, one reason excepted.

Find out what to expect when you visit the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple, which is a short train ride away from Tokyo's Narita Airport in Japan.

Calm as a millpond — seemingly sometimes — but the rough weather off the port of Calais, France is a constant down the centuries.

London and Paris being amongst the top destinations of the world, see millions of travelers commuting between them. Best way for this travel is subjective, however here is my take.

Both times that I visited Auschwitz I was overcome with the a deep feeling of depravity of the Nazis who completed it, and how much was part of a governmental system which has so badly harmed its world then and it in remains our world today in the form of white nationalization in our country.

One of the University of Brighton's main buildings is Mithras House, overlooking Lewes Road, Brighton, East Sussex, England. The structure dates from 1939. The University was chartered in 1992, but its origins lie in a School of Art founded in 1858 at the Royal Pavilion.

This covered bridge in Municipalité régionale de comté de Pontiac / Pontiac Regional County Municipality, named for a Quebec Premier, dates from 1898 and is the longest of its kind in Quebec.

Audus-le-Tiche, in eastern France, exhibits lush transformations at a former industrial site.

Designed by architect Thomas Fuller (1823-1898), Pembroke's City Hall dates from 1889. It formerly served as a post office until 1958.

Chapeau is a village in l'Isle-aux-Allumettes, Quebec; its situation gives rise to a number of intriguing anomalies.

Visiting Europe last year wasn't exactly on my bucket list. I was surprised to travel to Europe. I learn the French way of living which I took with me and would like to share it with the readers.

British Columbia has many hidden secrets and there is more history here than any one person could learn in a lifetime, this is just one of my favourite places.

The imposing Cardston Alberta Temple dates from 1913-1923. The work of Pope and Burton architectural partnership of Salt Lake City, its profile has the Rockies as a striking backdrop.

Strongly Gothic features characterize this building in Montevideo, Uruguay, dating from 1870, and designed by French architect Victor Rabú (1834-1917). It is named for an historically prominent Uruguayan family.

A teaser to incite you to go and walk between rows of Colonial townhouses in tree-lined street with retro gaslights. It will also allow you to discover and visit two Historic National Monuments.

Want to know about the mysteries of an ancient historical well of Magadha Dynasty built about two centuries ago? Here are some of the intriguing facts associated with this well.

The trip across America from Florida, the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, to Brookings, Oregon. Passing Wind power farms, Redwood Forest, the Pacific Ocean traveling 3382 miles alone.

At this peaceful Quebec village on the Rivière des Outaouais / Ottawa River time and isolation are seemingly telescoped. Visitors will maybe spot...eagles.

Cancua-Ay Private Beach Resort is also known as Villa Modern Deluxe Resort. It has lately grown some attention on social media for its affordable rates and its laid-back cottages and captivating rock formations within the turquoise beach water. Additionally, it is very accessible.

This article tells you about five exciting things you can do on your sojourn to the serene land of Bhutan.

To explore, escape reality and collect memories will make your life worthy and meaningful. These three things shouldn’t be missing out. It should be part of your bucket list before you vanish in this perfectly imperfect world.

Amritsar is a city in the northwestern Indian state of Punjab. Guru (leader) Ram Das (fourth guru of Sikh) founded it in 1574 on the land he bought at that time. Before this, the land was covered with thick forests.

Another article for all travel enthusiasts and people who enjoy reading about other countries and looking at nice photos in the process.

Experience one of the country’s most attractive tropical treasures by going on a solo or group escapade in El Nido, Palawan. Known as one of the best and most picturesque destinations in the Philippines. El Nido, Palawan has many adventures and activities available for the guests.

A tour of one of the world's greatest mega mansions and one of the most impregnable.

A mega mansion that's now a museum.