RIO DE JANEIRO -- As samba queens get final touch-ups on their sequins and feathers and hundreds of thousands of revelers take command of Rio's street...
RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rio de Janeiro is mixing technology with tradition to provide tourists information about the city by embedding bar codes into the bl...
Here is the bad news: You're probably never going to own a private island like Richard Branson or Johnny Depp. This is not your fault. This is just ho...
Still trying to figure out where to spend the last days of 2012? Whether you're flying solo or ready to hop a plane with your mate, consider these three seriously sexy places to end the year.
Rio de Janeiro may not be paradise, but through the lens of Joe Simon's Canon 5D Mark III it sure looks like it. The Brazilian city, which will soon...
LE BOURGET, France — A pilot facing faulty data and deafening alarms in an oversea thunderstorm pitched his plane sharply up instead of down as ...
File this one under "great moments in advertising." PmWeb Responsys, the agency that represents Brazil's Beach Park water park sent out this amazing a...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Brazil say an American tourist was detained for several hours after trying to leave Rio de Janeiro without paying hi...
Our first month of our around-the-world journey has landed us in Manaus, Brazil, the heart of the Amazon.
An old port of call nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bocaina Mountain Range, Paraty is the kind of place where you could write your memoirs, lying in a hammock overlooking a waterfront dotted with wooden fishing boats in bold greens, blues and oranges.
At first glance, the strange boat-shaped "melon-slice" of Hotel Unique is unlike any other building you've ever seen before.
When the sun sets here over the water's horizon, it punctures the sky with deep shades of pumpkin and gold.
A new book from Assouline, Brazilian Style, explores contemporary Brazil through photography of everything from tiny bikinis to musician Seu Jorge to ...
After receiving his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine, an article about the efforts of a Brazilian activist named Sydney Possuelo to p...
Everyone's morning cup of joe tends to mean something different. But on a recent trip to Brazil, I was shocked to find, coffee is much more than a dollar fifty of my hard-earned (or not so hard-earned) cash.
RIO DE JANEIRO -- The Brazilian government is proposing that UNESCO name the city of Rio de Janeiro a World Heritage site. The proposal was made by...
Celebrations kicked off this weekend in the last days leading up to 'Carnival,' the festive pre-Lent celebration, in areas across Europe and South Ame...
