The Colosseum: Rome’s Great Machine
Rome, ItalyIt looks just like the postcards until you walk inside. Through the arches, the Colosseum opens up into a vast bowl of stone, with the tunnels of the hypogeum laid bare beneath the arena.
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It looks just like the postcards until you walk inside. Through the arches, the Colosseum opens up into a vast bowl of stone, with the tunnels of the hypogeum laid bare beneath the arena.
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Florence began its cathedral with a hole in the roof and no idea how to close it. On an evening walk around the Duomo, the marble glows, and Brunelleschi’s dome still fills the end of every street.
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The Museo de los Molinos de Mazonovo near Taramundi has 19 mills, and many of them only run if you work them yourself. The sign outside calls it the largest mill museum in Spain.
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The Tower of Hercules in A Coruña was built by the Romans almost 2,000 years ago, and it is still a working lighthouse. You can walk through its foundations and climb to the top.
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The Camino ends at the cathedral door, but the building deserves a day of its own. We went back to see the baroque west front, the packed nave and the stepped granite roof high above the city.
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Meow Wolf Convergence Station is the third permanent installation from the Santa Fe-based art collective, and it is enormous. Located in Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood, it occupies a
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Once a year, the embassies of Washington DC open their doors to the public. The event runs across two separate weekends — one for non-EU countries, one for
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History keeps the nation’s serious treasures alongside its television memories. We spent the end of a Washington afternoon with Elmo, Lamb Chop, the Muppets and Captain America’s shield.
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St. Petersburg, Florida is not the first place that comes to mind for a world-class art museum dedicated to one of the twentieth century’s most inventive and unhinged
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Old San Juan is one of the most beautiful historic districts in the Americas — a 500-year-old city of Spanish colonial architecture, military fortifications, and cobblestone streets so
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