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Anyone can stick up a shack on the sand, stock it with beers and call it a beach bar.

Indoor basketball courts, island-sized balconies and bathrooms that belong in museums -- America's got some crazy indulgent hotel suites with price tags to match.

Yosemite National Park has almost everything a nature lover could desire: Glorious waterfalls, spectacular meadows and valleys, groves of ancient sequoias and the wildlife that call the park home.

Erin Burnett talks to Melissa Moore, daughter of a serial killer about being a child of a notorious criminal.

Tired of Rome? Done Milan? Kids start crying whenever you suggest another EM Forster tour of Florence?

A Red Sox star used blue language, but he won't be fined any green for his emotional reaction the day after police captured marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev.

St Patrick's Day is upon us again. Time for the drinking world to pull on an unamusing leprechaun hat and order pints of the black stuff in a fake Irish accent.

Sheryl Sandberg is a role model, say her defenders.

A local Chinese politician who was late for his flight had a meltdown at an airport. CNN's David McKenzie explains.

Before we had "16 and Pregnant," push-up bras for tweens or mandatory sex education, girls like Donna Liska-Johnson learned about the birds and the bees from author Judy Blume.

If you've never been to Mardi Gras, you may think it's all about beads for boobs.

Hankering to see some happy feet? Antarctica is far from your only option.

Robert Stokely fired up his computer and began a journey to a place an ocean and continent away, to a land of parched earth and dusty brush not far from the banks of the Euphrates.

"Obliterative." It's the best description Natalie Norton of Laie, Hawaii, has heard of what grief is like.

Ayesha Durgahee visits Airbus HQ in Toulouse, where aircrafts are assembled before being shipped off to their buyers.

When five teenagers sat down and posed for a picture at Copco Lake in 1982, they didn't plan on making it a tradition. But that's what it became.

It's your honeymoon, so it has to be special and unique. From the windswept beaches of a car-free island in the Baltic to tasting wine rarely sipped outside Argentina, these destinations rarely appear on the usual post-wedding itinerary:

CNN's Ayesha Durgahee looks at a firm breathing new life into old planes.

A great road is a great road, but if you're riding a motorcycle, you're looking for something special: twisties, vistas, turnouts, that perfect stretch of smooth tarmac, and biker-friendly stops that make getting there most of the fun.

CNN's Randi Kaye speaks to Anne Frank's cousin about the release of never-before-published stories and photos.