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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — At the 79th Cannes Film Festival, which concluded on Saturday, there was no shortage of interesting, unusual and plainly fabulous fashion. This year, the storied celebration of film held on the French Riviera looked a little less “Mission: Impossible,” which premiered on the Croisette in 2025, and a lot

By Griffin Shea, CNN Kampala (CNN) — When Emmanuel Jonathan Okello decided to open a restaurant, he knew exactly what the menu would include: Rolexes. “There’s a common saying; in Uganda, we don’t wear the Rolex. We eat the rolex,” he said. Now a national dish in the East African country, and beyond, the humble

By Carole Rosenblat (CNN) — Christina and Eric Schwendeman’s travels had them bouncing around Asia for several months early last year. In the spring, the American retirees returned to their home base in Italy for a few months. But because of 90-day restrictions on stays, the couple spent the next three months on the go

By Barry Neild, CNN Lebanon, Kansas (CNN) — To find the very middle of America, you have to drive a long way — but it’s worth every undulating mile of blacktop. It’s a journey that perfectly captures the dream of the American road trip. Wide-open highways stretch across vast acres of arable emptiness. Pit-stop towns

By Chrissie McClatchie, CNN (CNN) — In the gardens of Paris’ emblematic Champs Élysées, tucked behind the Petit Palais where works by Rembrandt, Gauguin and Cézanne decorate the walls, is an ornate two-story Neoclassical building with a buttercream and forest green façade. The Pavillon Ledoyen is a historic restaurant that since 1792 has hosted names

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: Korean cafe culture has taken over the world, Delta Air Lines is changing its snack policy, and a cemetery is hoping to become a hot tourist attraction in New York. Love is in the air Angela Buckner was flying from Wichita to New York

By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Venice (CNN) — After a dramatic lead up to this year’s Venice Biennale, involving the tragic death of its chief curator, outcry over Russia, Israel and the United States’ participation, and a prize jury that abruptly quit, it was, in the end, a set of portable toilets that stole the

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — The depiction of an enslaved Black child known as “Jersey” by celebrated 18th-century portrait painter Joshua Reynolds has long puzzled art historians, raising questions about the boy’s identity and life — and whether or not he was even real. Now, researchers in London say they finally have some

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Artworks by Renoir, Degas and Rodin that are believed to have been looted by the Nazis from their Jewish owners have gone on display at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The museum, home to the world’s largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist art, has this week taken a significant

By Joe Yogerst (CNN) — Disney World, Times Square and Yellowstone National Park can be packed to the rafters with tourists. But there are plenty of other places across the United States that continue to fly beneath the travel radar. While there are literally hundreds of locations that fit that description, here are 25 destinations

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A German tourist has been awarded more than 900 euros (about $1,100) by judges after his family was left without sun loungers while on vacation in Greece because other guests had got there first. While vacationing with his wife and two children on the island of Kos during the

By Julia Buckley, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — With its monumental façade, ornated with Roman-style columns, pedestals, and huge statues — naked men, winged horses, lions’ heads and gargoyles, for starters — Milan’s main train station is a tourist sight in its own right. This is a city that doesn’t do things by halves —

By Ali Halit Diker, CNN (CNN) — Muğla in southwestern Turkey delivers exactly what travelers expect from this corner of the Mediterranean: sunlit coastlines, rugged mountains and the ruins of long-fallen empires. Yet beyond these well-trodden attractions, it hides something far less familiar — a place that attracts a secretive, devoted stream of visitors for

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Generally speaking, you can’t sit on the art in a museum. But in one gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago — which is currently staged to resemble a karaoke bar complete with a disco ball, stage and jukebox — three plastic chairs, upholstered with the face of

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They’ve lived in various destinations, including San Francisco and Ireland, over the years but Geoffrey and Sarah say they’ve never felt as at home as they do in Germany. The couple, who relocated to Breisach, located along the temperate Rhine Valley, in 2023, loves exploring the riverbanks, parks and

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Extreme visibility has historically been the name of the game on the Meta Gala’s celebrity-packed red carpet, but this year some guests hid (or at least obscured) their biggest asset: Their faces. It started with the eye masks. Rachel Zegler, dressed in Prabal Gurung and referencing Paul Delaroche’s 19th

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, Oscar Holland, Bianca Betancourt, Jennifer Arnow, Lanna Apisukh New York (CNN) — Hundreds of stars ascended the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Met Gala on Monday evening, bringing a range of interpretations to this year’s dress code, “Fashion is Art.” The theme mirrored an accompanying exhibition

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — When Beyoncé was announced as a co-chair of this year’s Met Gala, it signaled the end of her decade-long hiatus away from the annual Costume Institute fundraiser — which became a globally watched phenomenon in the 2010s thanks to appearances from superstars like her. It wasn’t a surprise then

By Jacqui Palumbo, Oscar Holland, Bianca Betancourt, Jennifer Arnow, Lanna Apisukh New York (CNN) — Hundreds of stars ascended the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Met Gala on Monday evening, bringing a range of interpretations to this year’s dress code, “Fashion is Art.” The theme mirrored an accompanying exhibition titled

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When Angela Buckner decided to fly halfway across the United States for a blind date, she didn’t consider the decision a leap of faith. Instead, Angela saw the trip as simply a fun adventure — another in a series of carefree romantic escapades. “I was a recreation supervisor, laid