Yellowstone National Park recently announced that one of its tourists was sentenced to one week in jail after trespassing into a “dangerous” geothermal area. The national park, which is mostly located in Wyoming, shared a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release about the sentencing on June 13. Lynwood, Washington, resident Viktor Pyshniuk was handed a […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A missing American tourist has been found dead on a beach on a small Greek island west of Corfu, local media reported. The body of the man was found Sunday on a rocky, fairly remote beach on the island of Mathraki by another tourist. He had been reported missing Thursday by […]
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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A landslide that wiped out a vital two-lane road in western Wyoming is causing a mountain of headaches for thousands of commuting tourist town workers at the outset of the Yellowstone region’s busy summer season. After the slide sent both lanes crashing into a ravine near Teton Pass on Saturday, it’s […]
Boasting 51,000 statues carved into 252 caves and niches some 1,500 years ago, China’s Yungang Buddhist Grottoes is irrefutably a spectacular attraction. But in recent days, the restrooms in this UNESCO-listed World Heritage site have been earning more attention than the views. A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows […]
Boasting 51,000 statues carved into 252 caves and niches some 1,500 years ago, China’s Yungang Buddhist Grottoes is irrefutably a spectacular attraction. But in recent days, the restrooms in this UNESCO-listed World Heritage site have been earning more attention than the views. A video recently shared on various Chinese news and social media sites shows […]
Despite repeated warnings from Park Rangers, a man visiting Yellowstone National Park was spotted taking a break and sitting in a field occupied by a herd of bison and their calves. Predictably this proved a bad idea, and he was forced to flee when one adult took exception to the intrusion and chased him away. […]
My partner and I spent nearly two weeks in Costa Rica for our birthdays this year. We tried to see the highlights of the country as we visited Arenal, Monteverde, and Paquera. Here are 3 activities I’d do again in a heartbeat, and 1 tourist trap I’d skip if we visited again. My partner and […]
1.The diver who carved on endangered coral: u/asianslovewhite / Via reddit.com 2.The Universal Studios-bound tourists who complained to Universal that a hurricane wrecked their trip….as if A) Universal could do anything about that, and B) people weren’t literally losing their homes and dying in the hurricane: u/aliceroyal / Via reddit.com 3.Whoever spray-painted this on the […]
Elk use their antlers to display dominance and spar during the mating season, but they will also readily use them to defend themselves against potential threats, including careless photographers. That’s a lesson a man almost learned the hard way at Banff National Park when he almost sat on a bull elk as he posed for […]
Italy is home to countless ancient Roman ruins and pieces of history, but they aren’t immune to destruction today. In the latest instance of a visitor vandalism, a remnant of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius was defaced by a Dutch tourist just outside Naples. Herculaneum, like its bigger sibling Pompeii, was covered in ash and […]
A tourist visiting Colorado’s Front Range received a swift lesson in wildlife safety recently after carrying his small dog right up to a cow elk for a closer look. Elk tend to prefer close encounters with people and will usually leave an area rather than confront someone, but they tend to react particularly badly around […]