Last spring, the world’s most-visited art museum, the Louvre in Paris, proposed moving its most popular artwork—Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa—to its own subterranean room. Now, that idea is becoming reality. As…
The Price to Climb Mount Everest Will Rise to $15,000 This Year
Every year, hundreds of mountaineers try to reach the top of Mount Everest, the 29,032-foot-tall peak on the border of Nepal and Tibet. But before embarking on the challenging trek in Nepal,…
Thrill Seekers Say Goodbye to the World’s Tallest Roller Coaster
For two decades, the world’s tallest roller coaster—Kingda Ka—has towered over Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey. Standing 456 feet tall, the bright green steel coaster is one of the first…
This Man Just Set a New World Record for Scuba Diving in All Seven Continents
From the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean to the balmy waves of the Mediterranean Sea, scuba diving has taken Barrington Scott all over the world. Now, he has a world record…
See the World’s Smallest Park, a Teeny-Tiny Enclave in Japan That’s About the Size of Four Sheets of Paper
Parks come in all shapes and sizes, from humble city playgrounds to sprawling nature preserves and everything in between. But one park in Japan is so teeny-tiny that it recently set a…
You Can Spend a Night in the Last House Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright Before His Death in 1959
In 1952, an Ohio art teacher and his wife visited Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin studio in Wisconsin. As Wright’s secretary gave Louis and Pauline Penfield a tour of the studio, the master…