My last day in Sydney was a day of utter perfection. Believe it or not, it had nothing to do with food and I can't even remember what I ate. (Oh, wai...
If a picture of a destination is worth a thousand words, then a visit to its local market is worth a million. There is perhaps no other place that en...
All the books about the resiliency of a city's people pale compared to hiking the desolate mountains their ancestors crossed centuries before.
Melbourne will leave a lasting impression on any discerning traveller, and we can guarantee that it will become one of your top cities to explore time and time again.
Both offer gorgeous architecture and a boat load of culture, but where one gets top marks for an eco-friendly attitude and a hipster vibe, the other is renowned for its beaches and bold attitude.
"Can't you just stay in New York and complain about it like the rest of us?" a friend asked. No, townies like me don't get this many excuses to flee. I had to go.
Tired of visiting the same designer boutiques, venerable chains and fluorescently-lit retail centers? So are we. That's why we decided to scour the globe for unique shopping spots; in these retail heavens, you'll find an eclectic array of boutique haunts, stylish department stores and secret discount venues.
Craft brewers are still relatively small players in the commercial beer world but are helping to create a different sort of Florida tourist attraction.
The world might want to look to Vienna, Austria to solve all of its problems. In a new report entitled State Of The World Cities 2012/2013, the Un...
You may not have heard of Kimbra yet. That's going to change, quickly. The New Zealand native first came to our attention earlier this year as the body painted ex-girlfriend in Gotye's smash hit 'Somebody That I Used to Know.'
A Qantas baggage handler got a nasty shock last week after discovering that a crocodile that had been caged amid the plane's cargo had gotten loose an...
The Melbourne Festival is a 17-day, multi-venue exploration of visual and performing arts held each October in Australia's cultural capital. It's Melbourne's preeminent yearly cultural event, showcasing theatre, music, film, dance, visual art and more -- and it's every bit as ambitious, audacious and sprawling as one could expect.
The missing head of Australia's most infamous outlaw, a Down Under contemporary of Jesse James who also became a folk hero in his country, may have be...
Renter beware: a recent report from Florida is a good reminder to check more than a landlord's Craigslist profile when scrounging for last-minute off-...
Imagine being part of the discovery of something that potentially cracks the code to the origins of the universe by understanding the structure of matter.
Using a medley of different mediums -- paper, timelapse, stop motion -- director Benjamin Ducroz has created a hypnotizing piece of art. In his short ...
Nineteen-year-old Sam Porter from Melbourne, Australia saved a life yesterday -- but it wasn't as shocking of an event as you might think. The teen, w...
Counting sheep has never been so horrific. A truck carrying some 400 livestock crashed, rolled and hung over an Australian overpass Wednesday night...
Architect and urban designer Jan Gehl has dedicated a significant proportion of his career to making cities better places for people by studying public spaces and their impact on civic society.
Thousands of cities, big and small, around the world have embraced the green movement over the last few years, with many more following their lead. From innovative recycling programs to adding more green space, it actually is becoming easy to be green around the world.
The bathroom is where your hotel's earnest personality really begins to beam.
A teenage love triangle allegedly prompted a father-son beat down in southern Florida, police said. On Monday, authorities in Melbourne, a city loc...
Sometimes massive murals cover entire buildings and artists use their medium to create beauty in an otherwise gritty landscape.
No matter how many improvements are made to transportation methods, there's something undeniably appealing about old-school train travel.
Keith Haring left his uplifting and wacky images wherever he roamed on the globe, but since his passing in 1990, many of the murals have fallen into d...
