I first visited Salem, Massachusetts, on a whim while traveling nearby one October. However, I didn’t realize the city is inundated with visitors throughout the entire month — not just on Halloween. Infamous for the Salem Witch Trials, the city has become a tourist destination for lovers of everything spooky, especially as Halloween approaches. Most
Budapest’s most famous ruin bar is on tons of tourists’ must-visit lists, and it can get packed — but I believe it’s something you should see at least once. The eclectic decor, which has been layered over the decades, makes each room feel different from the last. Exploring the whole complex feels like an adventure.
As the US-Canadian trade war expands, some Canadians are purposefully shrinking their shopping options by staying local. It isn’t easy. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump’s 50% tariffs on about $20 billion in Canadian goods went into effect, prompting “dollar-for-dollar” retaliatory tariffs from Canada — the latest escalation since the trade war officially began in March 2025,
When I moved from Brooklyn to Puerto Rico two years ago, with my husband and then-3-year-old son, we were firmly “one and done.” Life with a toddler in New York City was too hard; we spent weekends at chain-link fence-enclosed playgrounds that were either shadeless and sweltering in the summer or freezing and depressing in
Two long slides, accessible by foot or wheel, connect the upper tree-themed play structures to the lower lagoon-themed play areas. The slides are shaded by a canopy, which is nice since they are metal and would probably get fairly hot when the sun is out. While we were visiting, an attendant was monitoring slide usage,
Nearly 600 foreign nationals are missing after deadly floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday. The flooding began on the morning of August 26, when a surge of water, mud, and debris entered Nepal from the autonomous Chinese region of Tibet via the Bhote Koshi River, Nepal’s Tourism Board said. Around 465 bodies have been