Reports emerged of people hiding in cellars, fleeing their homes, grabbing guns for self-protection, or even dying of a heart attack. Newspapers at the time (bear in mind, they had a motif to ...

Hallstatt or Salt Settlement is home to some of the oldest salt mines in the world. The prehistoric sea that secured “white ...

With ever-growing calls to ban Israel from Eurovision, you might think that this is where the controversy quota around the world’s most popular song contest maxes out.But what if the most shocking ...

Earlier today, I left Switzerland, a country I called my temporary home for the past three months. Heavy-hearted, I departed ...

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There are quite a few lakes one could stop by, too. My pick was Lake Hallstatt, a lake so clear and deep that it became a famous scuba diving spot. This time, I wasn’t looking for submerged shipwrecks ...

Finns competing for Sweden.A Norwegian singing for Ireland.Austrians performing for Germany.The Czech Republic cheering on a Slovak.In a contest that’s technically about nations united in music, this ...

Once a year, the city of Basel swaps its lab coats and precision watches for lightsabers, horns, and an alarming number of Super Marios.Wizards ride trams. Stormtroopers line up for coffee.Princess ...

9. Great Salt Lake, USA. The northern portion of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the largest saltwater lake in the Americas, has a distinctive pink color. Separated by a railroad causeway in the 1950s, ...