curious places

 Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far…

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and ancient Machu Picchu, for instance, seem…

 “Sumer, the land which came to be known in classical times as Babylonia, consists of the lower half of Mesopotamia,…

You can’t visit the Vatican and not ask about the Pope, St.Peter’s Basilica, Vatican Library, or Vatican Necropolis. Today’s article…

The ancient city of Petra, also known as AL-Batra in Arabic, is well known for being carved into the bedrock.…

How many of you have heard about the Hunza Valley? I was lucky enough to visit it a couple of…

“Sometimes I’ll pick up the “heart of the jungle” fossil on my bookshelf, or pull out my old field notebooks…

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer’s day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again,…

“Once the travel bug bites there’s no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the…

“On Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, always…

“If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that…

“You will never be completely home again because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price…

“My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor,…

“There are few places in my life that I’ve found more ruggedly beautiful than the Highlands of Scotland. The place…

“Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.” Even though Ireland…

Vatican City is known as the smallest state in the world. It shares borders with Rome and is known as…