Lights, Costumes, and Ancient Rituals: How Much Do You Know About the World’s Most Colorful Festivals?
Some festivals explain a country better than any monument. Take the quiz and see how many you can name.
69 Days Without Night: Life on Sommarøy, Norway’s ‘Island Without Time’
With no night for 69 days each year, the people of Sommarøy have learned to live by instinct, not by the clock.
Spain’s Skyscraper Beach Town Is in the Running for One of Europe’s Top Green Awards
The city of more than a hundred high-rises is a finalist for the 2028 European Green Leaf award, and the reason goes back to an urban planning decision made in the 1950s.
Uros: The Floating Islands of Lake Titicaca, Woven by Hand
In Lake Titicaca, there is an archipelago that appears on no geological map — it was woven by hand by the people who live upon it.
It’s Not Wood, It’s Quartz: Inside the Arizona Forest That Turned to Stone
Quartz logs, a 900-year-old house made of petrified wood, and more than 1,200 apology letters: inside Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park.
Kringa: The Croatian Village of History’s First Documented Vampire
He died in 1656, yet for 16 years he kept terrorizing his village. This is the story of the first documented vampire, and of the village that has learned to live off his legend.