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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: A collapsing sandcastle that trapped a teenager, the Vatican Observatory where science meets religion, plus “invisible architecture” in the African desert. Sleeper trains Few transport options capture romantic imaginations as completely as sleeper trains, those legendary locomotives that allow us to

By Stephy Chung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — There’s a plucky little Qing Dynasty artifact that at first glance looks out of place among China’s many Forbidden City treasures. Instead of the ornate porcelain and cloisonné enameling often associated with imperial vases, this one is made of blown glass. With its swirling red, white and

By Bianca Betancourt, CNN In a world of manufactured pop princesses, how does a young artist achieve timeless, on-stage style? Olivia Dean’s answer is to look to the greats. Since the official kickoff of the Grammy winner’s “The Art of Loving Live” world tour earlier this year, the singer and songwriter has dazzled her fans

By Stephen Lioy, CNN Saimaluu Tash Valley, Kyrgyzstan (CNN) — Under the dark canopy of night, the starry sky is reflected by the stones. Ten thousand rocks, carved with nearly 90,000 petroglyphs, catch the beam of a headlamp, telling stories as ancient and vast as the constellations above. Near the top of the Saimaluu Tash

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A normally peaceful Alpine refuge — “rifugio” — high in the Italian Dolomites has been overrun with hundreds of tourists who aren’t there simply for the panoramic views, but rather a sweet treat. The huge queues in northern Italy’s Val di Fassa valley is all because of a

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN Vusanje, Montenegro (CNN) — There are no obvious checkpoints or border crossings to disrupt the beauty of the Peaks of the Balkans trail, and yet it is not uncommon to start a long day of physical exertion with a hearty breakfast in one country, then refuel with a much-appreciated home-cooked dinner

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN. Photographs by Sophie Green for CNN. Ramsgate, England (CNN) — For the past hour, Trudi Jackson has been painting on a chiselled jaw, sponging dragon tattoos to her forearms, taping down her breasts and gluing hair to her chest. “My favorite bit is my chin because I get to do the

By Natasha Chen, CNN Anaheim, California (CNN) — Hunched over small tables, thousands of fans who recently gathered at the D23 convention, the latest in Disney’s biennial expos, wrote down their most cherished memories of Disneyland on index cards. Disney plans to bury those cards at the root of trees planted at the new “Coco”

By T.M. Brown, CNN (CNN) — Unless you have a passionate opinion about your preferred artificial intelligence model, it’s likely the clothes that multi-billion dollar companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Anthropic and Cohere are suddenly churning out aren’t meant for you. You likely aren’t going to be wearing Perplexity’s padded ecru jacket with a corduroy collar

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: why mosquitoes are getting better at outsmarting humans, the sun-kissed island known as the “Turkish Maldives,” plus the mysterious case of the missing Korean trash cans. Culinary battlefield Tacos or tarte tatin? Burritos or boeuf Bourguignon? Choose your fighter as we’re

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A person has been fined for sounding a foghorn that woke a slumbering polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, the region’s governor said in a statement. The incident occurred earlier in August when someone used the booming, low-pitched horn, usually reserved for maritime warnings, aboard a vessel that had

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Scorching temperatures and a long, dry summer have given locals and tourists alike a rare opportunity to see the remains of a 2,000-year-old bridge that once spanned the Tiber river that weaves through the center of Rome. The flow of the Tiber, which is fed from tributaries