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A few months ago, driving south down Interstate 81 in no real hurry to get from New York to Georgia, I began to notice somewhere around central Virginia that I was surrounded by caves. It seemed strange how aggressively advertised they were in this part of the world. Their names tended toward the bombastic: Lost […]

BERLIN — A hush fell over the hundreds of kinksters gathered in the pews of the Twelve Apostles Church in Berlin when the cellist, clad in head-to-toe black leather, took a seat in front of the altar and began to play Rachmaninoff. At the back of the room, ushers from the nun-themed drag troupe The

Since there are almost no habitable dwellings on the island now, they are housed in large, elaborately appointed safari tents imported from South Africa, with air-conditioning, fully functioning bathrooms and mosquito nets over four-poster beds. Less ceremoniously, new private homes elsewhere in Belize are selling with vigor. Dennis Craft, an agent at Sancas Realty, said

ISTANBUL — A palace on the Bosporus, one of the fabled waterside summer houses of the Ottoman sultans, is like a work of art. There is no way to calculate its true worth until a buyer and a seller come together and set a price. Even then, the honor of the Turkish owners, some of

On the anniversary of the first of two deadly crashes involving 737 Max jets, Boeing’s CEO will tell Congress that the aircraft company knows it made mistakes and is throwing everything into fixing the plane. “We have learned and are still learning from these accidents,” Dennis Muilenburg said in comments prepared for delivery Tuesday to

Low on the horizon, the sun casts an eerie light on the icy sea. For several hours, the glow transforms the colorless terrain into shades of pink as the sun does not rise or set, but edges to the side — traveling in a semicircle before slowly sinking one last time. I am far north

Ms. Steinaker entered the cockpit, noticed an iPad mounted to the windshield next to the captain’s seat and saw what appeared to be a live-streaming video of Captain Graham in the lavatory, according to the complaint. When questioned, Ms. Steinaker said, Mr. Russell admitted the video was from a functioning live-stream camera installed in the

In the last few days, Harold Burgess, the creator of the world’s largest treehouse, has been taking calls from mourners all over the world who had made pilgrimages to the 97-foot-tall wooden structure in Crossville, Tenn. On Tuesday night, it burned to the ground. It took about 15 minutes for the monastery-like edifice to become

Belize WHO SHOULD GO Beach bums and adventure-junkies will find Belize an easy getaway: no visas, language classes or serious jet-lag remedies required. Travel insiders have been talking up the country as the next hot Central American destination for a few years, extolling the virtues of its lush jungles, Mayan temples and pyramids, snorkeling-friendly reefs

Along the way, Egan sets a goal for himself: to get enough stamps in his pilgrim passport to earn a special seal from the Vatican at the end of the journey. Considerable energy builds around the lengths he goes to to get those stamps. When he finally lands the hard-won certificate, he says: “It’s official.