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Ahead of the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the National Park Foundation announced it had secured $40m for the Flight 93 National Memorial.

There's a stark divided in the U.S. airline industry between the most and least fuel-efficient carriers.

The development comes at the same time Tropical Storm Gabrielle is expected to rip through Bermuda with extreme winds, rain and storm surge.

Less than 24 hours after Madrid lost its bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Barcelona announced its own bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Nowhere on planet earth are people happier, a new U.N. report claims, than in one of its coldest corners: Scandinavia.

Thai Airways had two priorities Sunday night after one of its planes skidded off the runway: evacuate the passengers and cover up the logos.

Statistics show that both visitors to and workers in the United States’ national parks are overwhelmingly Caucasian.

The IOC picked “a pair of safe hands” to host the 2020 Summer Olympics when it selected Tokyo Saturday.

Virgin Galactic's commercial space tourism aircraft SpaceShipTwo successfully passed its second test flight on Thursday.

The Council on Tall Buildings has noticed an unusual trend in the construction of today's skyscrapers: “vanity height.”

The International Olympic Committee will meet in Buenos Aires this weekend to decide which nation will host the 2020 Summer Olympic Games.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak is a man on a mission to make the City of Lakes the gay marriage destination of Middle America.

A Japanese satellite captured a brilliant image of two of Turkey's salt lakes that dry up during the summer months.

What is TSA’s PreCheck program all about? As it expands to 100 U.S. airports, it’d behoove you to find out.

Nuremberg's Nazi Party rally grounds could get a $90 million makeover, despite the fact that many in the area want it destroyed.

Scientists could create a pill to cure jet lag after identifying the mechanism that limits our body clock's ability to adjust.

What do you do when your airline has lost your luggage and won’t respond to your emails? Buy a promoted tweet on Twitter.

Who is John Frum? The 2013 Burning Man Festival explores the messianic figure of a remote "cargo cult" from Vanuatu.

Russia issued on Monday a travel warning for the United States. The threat? The U.S. justice system.

For two weeks a 20-foot long crocodile held a New Zealand man captive on a remote island in Australia.

Many analysts predicted that summer 2013 would be a complete washout for the post-Sandy Jersey Shore. So was it?

Smoke from the raging Rim Fire, fourth-worst in California history, crept into the popular Yosemite Valley over Labor Day weekend.

The Great Barrier Reef has made headlines around the world this year, although not for the reasons anyone might have hoped for.

Despite coping with the fifth-largest wildfire in California’s history, Yosemite has seen minimal cancellations for the Labor Day weekend.

Some travel destinations are best in the summer. Others in the winter. These 10 spots come alive in the fall.

North Korea laid out a predictably bombastic plan this week to lure tourists as a source of much-needed foreign revenue.

Machu Picchu's "sister city" Choquequirao sees about five tourists a day, but that could change with a new $45 million tramway.

American cities are nowhere to be found at the top of the 2013 list of the most livable cities in the world.

Imagine thousands swimming in a sea of pasta sauce and you begin to picture what it was like at La Tomatina Festival 2013.