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President Barack Obama and his family are heading west Friday to visit two of the United States' national parks for Father's Day weekend.

Thanks to digital effects, filmmakers today can create almost anything -- monsters, aliens, tornadoes, tsunamis -- on movie screens.

On "Parts Unknown" Anthony Bourdain travels to the German city of Cologne and get lessons on how to eat and drink traditional favorites like a local. Tune in Sunday at 9p ET/PT.

Two bison are standing in silhouette at Yellowstone National Park as the winter morning sun rises, shaking off the ice from a bitter cold night.

On the next episode of "Parts Unknown" Anthony Bourdain heads to Senegal. He retraces the roots of some familiar American cuisine. Tune in Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

I was late to Georgia.

You may be the most cynical, born and bred, citified lefty like me -- instinctively skeptical of big concepts like "patriotism," relatively foreign to hunting culture, unused to wide open spaces.

With so many iconic cities and diverse landscapes, beautiful hotels in Europe are commonplace. But some are, quite simply, more beautiful than others.

The 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn launched the modern gay rights movement and the annual New York City pride parade.

After two years of scrutiny for unexploded ordnance, San Miguel Island in California's Channel Islands is set to reopen this month.

If you've seen about a half-hour of Anthony Bourdain on TV, you know this: He's a carnivore.

I spend a lot of my life -- maybe even most of my life these days -- in hotels.

Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, is not an uncommon thing to hear in my household.

"Don't let the parachute scare you -- it's terrifying!" cautions Sarah Matye, a tanned marine biologist, preparing a group for one of the world's most unusual scuba dives.