If You Haven’t Seen Niagara Falls Lately, You Haven’t Experienced This Amazing Power Station
Posted on 09/17/2023, 3:00 PM
A disused electric station on the lip of Niagara Falls reopens as the region's most powerful new attraction.
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Brightline Train to Disney: How to Use the New Fast Railway Between Orlando and Miami
Posted on 09/15/2023, 4:45 PM
How to use the Brightline train between South Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach) and the theme parks of Orlando.
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Academy Museum in Los Angeles: What's at the Oscar Museum and How to Visit It
Posted on 09/14/2023, 4:15 PM
Photos of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, plus advice on getting tickets and how to visit
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Thinking of Renting an EV? You'll Need to Make These Adjustments to Your Plans
Posted on 09/14/2023, 7:15 AM
The major car rental agencies now offer electric vehicles (EVs) as part of their standard inventory, but knowing what it takes to operate an EV may not yet be a part of your own repertoire. At rental lots operated by Avis, Budget, Enterprise, National, and many others, EVs are being loaned to many drivers for the first time. You can practically hear the naive exclamations at the rental counters: I'...
Venice, Italy, Officially Approves New Entrance Fee for 2024: Here Are the Rules
Posted on 09/12/2023, 4:00 PM
On September 12, the city council of Venice, Italy, finalized the city's long-postponed plan to battle overcrowding by charging visitors an experimental entry fee in 2024. The final vote of 24-12 was met with protests. Here's what we know so far. Venice's entry ticket will not be required every single day in 2024. On September 5, Venice mayor Luigi Brugnaro posted on social media that the entry...
Popular Place Names You've Probably Been Pronouncing Wrong
Posted on 09/08/2023, 5:15 PM
Edinburgh, Champs-Élysées, Caribbean—you've been saying them all wrong. Here's how to pronounce those and other tricky place names around the world....
London's Tate Modern Reopens Its Controversial Viewing Deck—and It's Still Free!
Posted on 09/07/2023, 7:45 AM
All about Tate Modern's Level 10 observation deck, a free viewing platform over the Thames in Central London
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The First Orlando Theme Parks Have Gone Cashless
Posted on 08/31/2023, 6:00 AM
The cashless revolution has reached Orlando. Five popular theme parks in Central Florida stopped accepting cash this week. Although the banishment of paper currency and coins has been advancing steadily for the past decade, plastic-only transactions made a huge leap toward dominance during the worst of Covid-19. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has been rolling out cashless payment systems at all...
Airline Introduces Child-Free Zone So Grown-Ups Can Enjoy "Quiet" Flights
Posted on 08/29/2023, 3:15 PM
A European airline will cordon off the first 12 rows of its A350 aircraft to create an adults-only area where no one under the age of 17 may sit. “This zone in the aircraft is intended for travelers traveling without children and for business travelers who want to work in a quiet environment," Corendon Airlines announced in a media release that was widely reported by the aviation industry press.Th...
London's Hunterian Museum: Bits of People in Jars That Changed the World
Posted on 08/29/2023, 7:30 AM
If you lived in 18th-century London and something went wrong with your body, after you died a famous scientist named John Hunter might show up to rummage through your corpse, snip out the afflicted organ, and sink it in a jar of preservative so that budding physicians could learn from the specimen. Back in those days, every scientist was like a mad scientist. We had so much yet to learn about an...
