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What do you look for in a hotel interior? A calming color scheme? Crisp white sheets?

A city of more than 25,000 places to eat, Hong Kong is always going to spoil diners, even without the seemingly constant flow of new spots opening up.

Dozens of newly discovered mummies have been unveiled at a burial site in Egypt.

Punxsutawney Phil emerged from his burrow and did not see his shadow, predicting an early spring. Don't get too excited, though -- he's usually wrong.

Even before the longest government shutdown in history, the National Park Service had an $11.6 billion backlog for repairing roads, structures, and other facilities including dams, monuments, and amphitheaters.

Downtown Atlanta is home to a host of densely packed attractions -- the Georgia Aquarium, World of Coca-Cola, the Center for Civil and Human Rights, the College Football Hall of Fame and more.

Many residents of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania, can't swim. A special program at "Burkini Island" is teaching Muslim girls how to swim with the aim of saving lives.

Most of us will never set foot on a swanky superyacht. We'd be lucky to even catch a glimpse of one of these streamlined, gleaming vessels docked in Monaco or Miami.

Guinness World Records representatives are investigating a giant avocado in the Kona region of Hawaii to see if it beats one found last year that weighed 5.8 pounds.

During the government shutdown, elephant seals waddled onto Drakes Beach on Northern California's Point Reyes National Seashore. They had pups -- and are in no rush to leave.

A nine-year conservation project on King Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt has just finished, and some intriguing discoveries were made along the way.

A tour of Iran's Alborz Mountains, where an ancient cult of "assassins" once held sway, is great day trip or weekend excursion from Tehran.

Once home to Pearl's Brewhouse, a 19th-century building on the San Antonio waterfront now houses one of the city's most elegant hotels.

Want to strut your stuff in the Year of the Pig?

Beyond the well-known traditions, the Lunar New Year is full of fun quirks and customs. Here are 11 things to know about the holiday.

Do you know your etiquette for Lunar New Year? Here's a fun list of dos and don'ts so you can enjoy the Year of the Rat in the proper manner.

Hong Kong's Avenue of the Stars, on the Tsim Sha Tsui waterfront, is one of the best things to see in Hong Kong. Find out how James Corner, the architect behind New York's High Line, has helped revitalize it.

Travelers in the United States are used to tipping a multitude of people, from the baristas who make their frothy coffee concoctions to restaurant servers, parking valets, hotel housekeepers and Uber drivers.