More than 750,000 people visit Ford's Theatre annually to ponder Abraham Lincoln's assassination -- John Wilkes Booth's single shot and histrionic leap to the stage, the mortally wounded president's death across the street at a boardinghouse, where Lincoln was carried after the shooting.Read more

Mexico wasn't going to move, so I had only one option: bang into it.Read more

Europe as a whole accounted for more than half of the worldwide growth in international tourism arrivals.Read more

Stressed by flying? Travelers in Northern California can now find their inner calm in the yoga room at San Francisco International Airport.Read more

When I visit a museum, a large part of what I'm looking to do is help educate my children. But too many museums, if you ask me, stupefy kids with boredom or insult them with hands-on activities that mostly just serve as germ depositories.Read more

Demand for flights in Brazil has nearly tripled in the past decade, authorities say, and that is straining a system that is under pressure to prepare for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. While airlines are enjoying the boom -- demand for air travel has risen 194 percent in 10 years -- air travelers are suffering from packed airports, jumps in ticket prices, and routine delays often caused by woeful airport infrastructure, from poor runways to problems with air control radar systems.Read more

A musical pitch for GeorgiaRead more

Replicas of two of the three ships that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World are headed to Texas. The Niña and the Pinta will stop in Louisiana this month and arrive March 2 in Freeport.Read more

Jane Tarlow wants to scare me. The Breckenridge ski instructor dares me to call the Colorado resort "family-friendly." And she does it as only a seasoned ski instructor can -- while guiding me to the highest lift-serviced terrain of any ski resort in North America.Read more

Universal Orlando, with an eye on bolstering attendance, announced ambitious plans Wednesday for a daily interactive character parade and a nighttime light and pyrotechnics show at the theme park, highlighting the company's 100 years of moviemaking.Read more