
Curious Traveler
Why constellations are backwards in Grand Central; why there is an abundance of acorns.

Why constellations are backwards in Grand Central; why there is an abundance of acorns.

Canterbury to Dover; South Downs; seaside resort of Brighton; the naval heritage of Portsmouth.

The Grand Bazaar and spice market in Istanbul; fall of Byzantium.

Why constellations are backwards in Grand Central; why there is an abundance of acorns.

Cotswold villages boast churches, manor homes and gastropubs; Glastonbury; Stonehenge and Avebury.

The open-air museum in Aarhus; royal burial church and Viking ship museum in Roskilde.

Seto Lelo Polyphonic singing; Estonian folk costumes; Russian arts and crafts; smoke saunas.

The Palio wild horse race in Siena, Italy; Tuscany's wine country.

Copenhagen's Viking history; Europe's first pedestrian boulevard.

The UNESCO Old Town in Tallinn, Estonia; Kiek in de Kök and Fat Margaret towers.

Farmhouse inn; making prosciutto and pecorino cheese; ancient wine cellars; Assisi, Italy.

Old port town of Nafplio; the ruins of Olympia; theater at Epidauros.

Romania's capital, Bucharest; Transylvania's fortified churches, cobbled merchant towns and castles.

Explore curiosities of Asheville, North Carolina and the Biltmore Estate.

The Parthenon, Agora and National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

The complex history of Bulgaria, from ancient Thracian tombs to Soviet monuments.

Cézanne in Aix; Aix's Fountains; Van Gogh in Arles; Arles' Roman Arena; a Calisson Factory.

Art Nouveau; peat bathing; Holocaust memorial in Terezen.

Frankfurt, Germany, a global hub for commerce; Nuremberg, Germany's, Nazi Documentation Center.

The dragon on the Welsh flag; the title Prince of Wales; Walls of Constantinople; King Longshanks.