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The additions of an overlook to Mound City and a re-creation of Fort Defiance in Cairo will join several existing natural and historic tourist attractions along the Ohio River Scenic Byway.

According to the Alaska Travel Industry Association, more than 1.7 million people came to Alaska this summer.

Was it human error? The design of the new exhibit?

Western Europe has long been the most popular getaway for U.S. tourists, but rising airfare and the weak dollar may have Americans traveling to more exotic destinations in 2008.

Merida (Venezuela), Dec 26: A visit to the Venezuelan Andes causes many a tourist to break out in goose pimples. Indeed the flora and fauna is so diverse and staggeringly beautiful that some people have to pinch themselves to make sure they are not dreaming.

A recent survey found that as many as 83 percent of American adults get holiday gifts they don't want. CBS 2's Dave Carlin took an unscientific poll in Times Square and almost everyone has a tale to tell.

The image of Sen. James Webb (D-Va.) gaveling the Senate in and out of session in 30 seconds has become a staple of wry political commentary lately. But in fact, the senator's lonely vigil represents more than Washington gamesmanship. In a way, it marks a shift in the balance of power between the...

The first American artist to stand on the threshold of Modernism was not Stanton Macdonald-Wright, a Los Angeles expatriate in Paris, or New Yorker Arthur Dove. At least 15 years before them, the Mississippi artist George E. Ohr (1857-1918) was making radically inventive, highly individualistic work that turned aesthetic convention on its head.

26 December, 2007 - The Royal Bhutan Police did not scour the hills and forests of Paro dzongkhag to catch Gem Dorji, one of the two men who robbed an American trekking group on the night of October 24 and went into hiding.

PARIS - Once upon a time there lived a stereotypical American tourist, who would come to Paris, dressed in polyester, clutching a camera and a Baedeker tourist guide, his wallet laden with crisp dollar bills.