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Declaring your love in a sonnet was not a couples-only endeavor.

The legend of San Borondón all started with an Irish saint.

Welcome the Year of the Dragon with fortune-telling soups, lucky goldfish dumplings, and more.

Finding where history, passion, and urban development come together can mean a lot to a community.

Back when the Icelanders called a part of Canada the “land of grapes.”

New Zealand regulations prevent the sacred beverage of the Pacific Islands from being watered down.

Or, why families under siege make for great movies.

This former general store and medicine shop in Oregon is a perfectly preserved time capsule.

For centuries, the Beothuk people relied on seabirds to survive—and likely to find their way to the afterlife.

Places in the world that made us instantly feel at home, from the Big Easy to the Magic Kingdom. 

Plus: More than 100 offbeat destinations for sports fans who can't make it to the big game.

After McKinley’s assassination, a local Buffalo coroner was called in to tell the nation how the 25th president died.

Meanwhile meteorite hunters rushed to Berlin to find this most rare space rock.

A city in Uzbekistan that was once a port is now in the middle of a desert.

A linguist explains how loanwords and direct translations known as calques are reshaping the sound of Miami and beyond.

A herd of the largest land mammal in North America thrive in the country’s third-most-visited urban park, in the heart of San Francisco.

On a tiny island in Lake Titicaca, a knitted hat symbolizes a man’s code of honor, marital status, and love for life.