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Francesca Street, CNN Looking out the cabin window and seeing cities and oceans from above is, for many of us, one of the joys of flying. But aviation innovators Rosen Aviation reckon this experience could be taken to the next level, rendering actual airplane windows obsolete. The American aviation company is touting its Maverick Project

Megan C. Hills, CNN An exceptionally rare first-edition printed copy of the US Constitution fetched $43.2 million in New York on Thursday, becoming the most expensive historical document ever to sell at auction. The sale also smashed the auction record for a book, manuscript or printed text, said Sotheby’s, which had initially expected bids up

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Crowds lining the banks of the Seine and visiting the Eiffel Tower in Paris this weekend were treated to an unusual sight — a slackliner charting an unusual path across the skies above their heads. Frenchman Nathan Paulin walked the 600-meter slackline from the Eiffel Tower to the Chaillot Theater on

By Dakin Andone, CNN The KNP Complex Fire in California has reached a “small area” of the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park, home to some of the world’s largest trees, according to fire officials. The blaze, which has scorched 21,777 acres, reached the Four Guardsmen area, where officials spent recent days preparing the trees

Channon Hodge, CNN When you step into the Scarlet Lady cruise ship, you know immediately you’re on Richard Branson’s ship. There’s a record store on the left selling limited edition Sex Pistols and Lady Gaga on vinyl. The crew has cooler outfits than you. And there is red, red, red everywhere — lest you forget

By Christina Maxouris, CNN It’s tiny, but mighty. Boston’s “Skinny House” — an iconic structure and must-see tourist attraction known as the narrowest home in the city — just sold for more than $1.2 million. “People are amazed it was built to be, really, this skinny,” said Travis Sachs, executive vice president at CL Properties,

Joseph Ataman, CNN and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The Notre Dame cathedral is on track to reopen to the public in 2024 as the cathedral has now been entirely secured, two years after the disastrous fire that destroyed large parts of the 850-year-old building. In a statement Saturday, the public body responsible for its conservation and

By Theresa Waldrop If your childhood dream was to live like Winnie the Pooh, this is your chance to make it come true by staying at a replica of the storied bear’s tree house. Pooh illustrator Kim Raymond is hosting two one-night stays at the “Bearbnb,” custom-built at the real site that inspired the fictional

Barry Neild and Katharina Krebs, CNN The UK government announced Friday it is simplifying its controversial traffic light travel rules and removing mandatory Covid tests for vaccinated travelers returning to England from countries on its safe list. Grant Shapps, the UK transport minister, said in a series of Twitter posts that as of October 4,

By Alisha Ebrahimji and Stephanie Elam, CNN The world’s largest tree has been wrapped in foil to protect it against flames from a fire raging in California’s scenic Sequoia National Park. The base of the General Sherman Tree has been wrapped in aluminum-based burn-resistant material, according to Sequoia and Kings National Parks. The tree is

By Junko Ogura and Sara Spary, CNN A glass bottle containing a message from 1984 has washed up in Hawaii and been discovered by a 9-year-old girl — 37 years after high school students in Japan dropped it into the ocean as part of an experiment. The message in a bottle, titled “Ocean current investigation,”

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Safety has long been a paramount concern for travelers when it comes to deciding which destination to visit. But the world has been turned on its head in recent years due to the global pandemic and the notion of exactly what makes somewhere “safe” has changed significantly. This may help to explain

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Why settle for one sky-high attraction when you can have three inside one building? That certainly seems to be the thinking behind Summit One Vanderbilt, which is set to open at Manhattan’s One Vanderbilt tower on October 21. Billed as the “world’s most immersive observatory experience,” New York’s latest observation deck features

Jane Levere, CNN Airport gates are usually the last point of solid ground that fliers experience before taking to the skies, but at one US airport this month, a remarkable engineering feat saw several gates embark on their own incredible journey. In what’s believed to be an aviation industry first, four newly built gates —

By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN More than 18 months into the coronavirus pandemic, a number of countries have decided it’s time to open up and adopt a “living with Covid” model. Some have enviable vaccination rates; others have decided that the costs of continued economic and social restrictions outweigh the benefits. Here are five nations to

Jacopo Prisco, CNN NASA’s first space shuttle was meant to be named Constitution — a nod to the United States Bicentennial that year. But a write-in campaign by “Star Trek” fans prompted President Gerald Ford to change his mind. Instead, the orbiter was called Enterprise, like the TV show’s starship. That’s why members of the

Francesca Street, CNN A touchless airplane bathroom concept and a next-generation economy seat have been named as winning designs in an annual contest highlighting airplane cabin innovations that could reshape the future of flying. French cabin designer Safran’s hands-free bathroom design Beacon won the Clean and Safe Air Travel category in this year’s Crystal Cabin

By Diane Selkirk, CNN Five years ago, Iceland had a problem. International tourism had more than tripled since 2000, and many of the visitors were first-timers who were unfamiliar with the rugged Icelandic landscape. “In the media, you’d often see negative stories about tourists doing something that they weren’t supposed to,” says Sigríður Dögg Guðmundsdóttir,