Travel and Recreation

Travel and Recreation

Places You Need to Visit in 2018

The 14 Best Budget Travel Destinations for 2018

The Top 35 Places to Travel in 2018

Airport Runways

The hidden beauty of airport runways, and how to decipher them

Balloon Festival

A Colorful Time-Lapse of the World's Largest Balloon Festival

Beaches

10 cities with brilliant beaches (Lonely Planet)

Beach 'superstars' -- and the not-so stellar

9 of the world's best city beaches (CNN News)

Europe's best city beaches

Black Forest

Black forest -- sustainable travel experience

Bookstores

World's coolest bookstores

Bridges

Bridges

Bungee

Braver than bungee: Vanuatu's land-diving daredevils

Caribbean Secrets

10 top Caribbean secrets

Cities

And the world's most expensive city is ...

City guides: insider tips to the best cities in the world

And the world's best city is ...

Cliffside Beaches

20 stunning cliffside beaches 

Cycling trips

Cycling trips and tips: top cyclists share their secrets

Elderly cyclists complete ride from Vancouver to San Francisco

Elevators

12 elevators you need to see to believe

Gardens

What a wonderful world: 13 fabulous gardens

Great Places

Best Fall Trips 2015 

20 great places to travel this fall 

5 Magical Places You’ll Never Believe Are Real

25 Places You Have To See Before You Die

  Hotels

Condé Nast Traveler announces 2014 hotel 'hot list'

Europe's best new boutique hotels

Southeast Asia's finest 'new' heritage hotels

Floating snowflake could be the world's coolest hotel 

Killer Whale Show

Seaworld SHAMU Killer Whale Show

Lakes

World's strangest lakes

Large Holes

World’s Largest Holes

Most Photographed Places

Most photographed places in the world are ...

Movie Locations

World's 10 most romantic movie locations

Mountains

The mountains we have never climbed

National Parks

30 of the world's best national parks

Natural Wonders

50 natural wonders: The ultimate list of scenic splendor

Packing

How Smart Women Pack For Two Weeks in France

European Travel Skills: Packing Light

Suitcase secrets: Inside other people's luggage

Photo Shooting

Risking his life for the perfect wave

Piers

World's most beautiful piers

Places for Vegetarians

World's 10 best vegetarian destinations

Places to go in June

Ask the experts: where to go in June

Plane Colors

Plane colors: Graffiti duo let rip on Brazil football team's 737

Relief from Job Stress

4 great stress-busting escapes from Joburg

Rooftop Bars

16 incredible rooftop bars

Scenic Wonders

7 Greatest Sonic Wonders of the World

Scuba Diving

Why I love ... scuba diving

Souvenirs

15 biggest souvenir-buying no-no's

Summer Car Tips

7 Summer Car Tips Every Driver Should Know

Summer Skies

Summer skies: Fireworks to fireflies

Summer Off-season Bargains

An optimist's guide to off-season travel bargains

Surfing

Amazing video: Extreme surfers in the Arctic

Sushi Bar

What's it like to eat at the world's best sushi bar?

Theme Parks

12 game-changing theme park attractions

World's top 25 amusement parks

Basics of Birding - Texas Parks and Wildlife [Official]

World's scariest, best water slides

Things to do Before Travel

9 Important Things You Should Do the Day before You Travel

Tourist Traps

8 tourist traps that are still worth visiting

Travel Experience

50 ultimate travel experiences

Rick Steves Presents an Irreverent History of His Tour Program

Travel Shoes

Women's Travel Shoes

Travel Skills

European Travel Skills: Avoiding Theft

Travel Mistakes

Doh! 20 biggest travel mistakes

Tunnels

9 of the world's greatest tunnels

Unusual Houses

Upside Down Houses

Value of Travel

TEDxRainier - Rick Steves: The Value of Travel

Viewing Platforms

13 scary-but-awesome viewing platforms

Water Slides

World's tallest water slide to open soon

Zoos and Aquariums

World's largest aquarium opens in China

And the world's best zoo is ...

The CNN 10 Dare to Go

Architecture and Design

Architecture and Design

Ted Talks

Architecture that's built to heal

How to reinvent the apartment building

Turning dunes into architecture

7 principles for building better cities

Buildings that blend nature and city

Design at the intersection of technology and biology

Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you

Why great architecture should tell a story

Architecture that's built to heal

Magical houses, made of bamboo

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Magazine

● dezeen Magazine: 
Architecture and Design Magazine 

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from CNN 

Dramatic first look at world's highest, longest glass-bottom bridge

Keep cool and carry on: How architects are redefining stadium design 

RIBA Stirling Prize 2015: Inside the UK’s Best New Buildings 

10 of the world's 'blobbiest' buildings

The world's most incredible offices: Happier staff, more money?

World's best new skyscraper is ...

From the British Museum to the Tate Modern, mega-museums go big

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban wins 2014 Pritzker Prize

Modern marvels, seen through your eyes

Cities of the future? Indian PM pushes plan for 100 'smart cities'

China's aggressive museum growth brings architectural wonders

Beijing set to take aim at 'weird buildings'

Would you live in a house made of sand and bacteria?

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Videos

Buildings That Breathe | Doris Sung's Living Architecture 

America's Best Architecture | ARTLAND | Reserve Channel

The Longest Tunnel in The World

Impossible Bridges - Denmark to Sweden (megastructures - documentary) 

Taipei 101: An Architectural Wonder

An Architectural Wonder：Taiwan’s Hsueh Shan Tunnel 台灣雪山隧道

The works of Antoni Gaudi, Barcelona - Lonely Planet travel video

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from Architectural Digest

The Most Beautiful Pedestrian Bridges Around the World

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from The Atlantic

The Clone of My Hometown in China

Home

Life and Technology

Life and Technology

Ted Talks

Tracking our online trackers

Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology

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Look Up

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Apple

What we want Apple to unveil at WWDC

Eight key features of iOS 8

Apple iPhone a danger to China national security: state media

Cyber-attack

Evernote struck by denial of service cyber-attack

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity: How safe are you?

Data Surveillance Centers

Data surveillance centers: Crime fighters or 'spy machines?'

Drone Tech

Drone technology used in aircraft safety checks

How to shoot amazing video from drones

Forget selfies -- make way for 'dronies'

Video drone that flies itself

Earthquake Alarm

The $50 earthquake alarm that could save thousands of lives (New!)

Eavesdropoping

Eavesdropping with a camera and potted plants

Embeddable Implants

Forget wearable tech, embeddable implants are already here

Expedia Accepting Bitcoin Payments

Expedia to accept Bitcoin payments for hotel bookings

Facebook

Facebook wants to know if you're dating anyone

Facebook adds new way to tag updates about music, TV

Facebook privacy now defaults to friends only

Facebook treats you like a lab rat

What FACEBOOK and GOOGLE are Hiding from world.

You can't change the color of Facebook - it's a virus

Fitness Bands

The Next-Generation Fitness Bands

Gadgets That Save Life

6 gadgets that could save your life

Gadget gifts for Fathers

10 gadget gifts for Father’s Day

Google Glass

Google Glass available to anyone for one day only

Google

Google testing super-secure email

How Google Plans to Use Its New High Resolution Satellites

Google and Facebook can be legally intercepted, says UK spy boss

Hacking

You've been hacked! Here's what to do

Hyperlocal Apps

Hyperlocal apps help residents fight crime

iPhone

See through walls on ... your iPhone!

Vast majority of iPhone 6 buyers are rich, white men (New!)

New Amazon Phone

New Amazon phone makes it easy to buy stuff ... from Amazon

New Cassette Tape

New cassette tape could hold 47 million songs

Online Identity

How the rich protect their online identity

Passwords

EBay customers must reset passwords after major hack

Photos could replace passwords

Pen That Can Write Very Fast

How to Write 225 Words Per Minute With a Pen

Photoshop

What Beauty Looks Like, From Argentina to Vietnam

Prodigy Classic

Where Online Services Go When They Die

Reasons for Turning off Electronic Devices on Planes

Why we have to turn electronic devices off on planes

Remote Control for the Home

How the Remote Control Rewired the Home

Repairing Yourself

Repairing yourself: Self-healing buildings, bodies, and machines

Robots

Robots will replace fast-food workers

Army of robots to invade Amazon warehouses

Is this the world's first emo robot?

Robots: Can we trust them with our privacy?

This robot valet will park your car

Hitchhiking robot is halfway across Canada

Snapchat

Snapchat adds instant messaging and video calls to app

Self-driving Cars

The Trick That Makes Google's Self-Driving Cars Work

Solar-powered Roads

Solar-powered roads: Coming to a highway near you?

Shrilk

Shrimp-based invention new step in plastic

Smog-guzzling buildings

The smog-guzzling buildings fighting deadly pollution

Tracking Tech for Airlines

Airlines want tracking technology to prevent another MH370

Tech That Can Detect Mood

Feeling glum, happy, aroused? New technology can detect your mood

3-D Printer

Carpenter who cut off his fingers makes 'Robohand' with 3-D printer

How 3D printing will radically change the world

The Germans Have Figured Out How to 3-D Print Cars

'Foodini' machine lets you print edible burgers, pizza, chocolate (New!)

Tornado Survival Tools

7 mobile tools to help you survive tornadoes

The Internet

The End of the Internet?

People in Overland Park, Kansas, may soon have 100 times faster internet than you

T-Mobile

T-Mobile wants to give you an iPhone

Traffic Jam-free

Can a city ever be traffic jam-free?

Twitter

A Eulogy for Twitter

Virgin Galactic's Spaceship

Inside Virgin Galactic's newest passenger spaceship

Wearable Gadgets

Upcoming Future Smartphones | Wearable Gadgets 2015 (New!)

Wi-Fi

Comcast is turning your home router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot

Wireless Electricity

Wireless electricity? It's here

Workplace Wearables

Workplace wearables: Your boss knows when you've had a good night's sleep?

World Cup Survival Glass

World Cup survival glass tells you when to stop drinking

Internet Acronyms

28 Internet acronyms every parent should know