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Got 245 days of vacation time? Viking’s record-setting world cruise may be perfect for you

August 23, 2019 at 4:40 p.m.

Luxury cruise line Viking claims the title of longest continuous world cruise with a 2019 itinerary it calls the Ultimate World Cruise. Indeed, the trip features a full circumnavigation of...

Kelly Valway of Westminster looks at Savanna Valway, 5 and Bryson Valway, 7, at "Prismatica," at Walter Sondheim Fountain during Light City Baltimore. (Karl Merton Ferron / Baltimore Sun Staff)

Get your glow on with these five light fests and installations

August 23, 2019 at 4:14 p.m.

Lights and light festivals lend a certain glow to a city or a place. Here are five — including Baltimore's own Light City — that can light up your life....

Cruise Critic editors select Carnival Vista as 2016’s best new cruise ship

May 12, 2019 at 8:44 a.m.

Carnival Vista, Disney Cruise Line and Seabourn received top honors in Cruise Critic's 2016 Editors Picks Awards. For the last nine years, editors at the cruise-centric website have shared their...

Visitors who hike around Catalina Island may site buffalo on the hillsides.

5 places to see bison, America’s newly named national mammal

August 23, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.

The shaggy bearded American bison finally got some respect Monday when President Obama decreed it to be the country's national mammal. In ancient times, millions of bison (whose species name...

How to hang out at Francis Ford Coppola’s pool

August 23, 2019 at 1:49 p.m.

You don't have to be a Hollywood A-lister to spend the day at Francis Ford Coppola's pool, soaking in the beauty of California's wine country. A mere $35 will suffice....

The water park on Deck 15 on the new Norwegian Cruise Lines ship Breakaway, making its first docking at Port Canaveral, Tuesday, October 15, 2013. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) B583258058Z.1

7 new cruise ships ready to hit the water in 2016

May 12, 2019 at 7:17 a.m.

You've heard the hype, now you'll get to see the cruise ships that are hitting the water in 2016. Five cruise lines, including Royal Caribbean and Carnival, are scheduled to...

Cruisers prepare to board Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship, set sail for a "preview cruise" out of Fort Lauderdale on November 20, 2009.

Tiffany opens its first at-sea jewelry store on Oasis of the Seas

May 12, 2019 at 7:14 a.m.

Now you can have breakfast at Tiffany's without going to New York. Famed Fifth Avenue jeweler Tiffany & Co. recently opened a boutique aboard Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas...

Chew on this: Seattle’s Gum Wall to be blasted clean

June 22, 2019 at 5:20 p.m.

The Gum Wall at Pike Place Market is about to vanish. The sticky tourist attraction in Seattle will be steam-blasted clean of all the icky wads of chewed gum that...

Here’s why these 8 national parks are Instagram stars

August 23, 2019 at 1:16 p.m.

Going state by state, the website Busbud last month looked at the most Instagrammed places in America. In seven states plus the District of Columbia, national parks were the top...

A tourist walks across the glass bridge in Shiniuzhai National Geological Park in central China before one of its panel's shattered.

Chinese suspension bridge made of glass cracks

June 24, 2019 at 7:04 p.m.

Call it the crack heard round the world. The glass bridge suspended more than 590 feet in the air in one of China's national parks cracked last week and was...

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