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On the next episode of "Parts Unknown" Anthony Bourdain heads to Senegal. He retraces the roots of some familiar American cuisine. Tune in Sunday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

I was late to Georgia.

You may be the most cynical, born and bred, citified lefty like me -- instinctively skeptical of big concepts like "patriotism," relatively foreign to hunting culture, unused to wide open spaces.

With so many iconic cities and diverse landscapes, beautiful hotels in Europe are commonplace. But some are, quite simply, more beautiful than others.

The 1969 riots at the Stonewall Inn launched the modern gay rights movement and the annual New York City pride parade.

After two years of scrutiny for unexploded ordnance, San Miguel Island in California's Channel Islands is set to reopen this month.

If you've seen about a half-hour of Anthony Bourdain on TV, you know this: He's a carnivore.

I spend a lot of my life -- maybe even most of my life these days -- in hotels.

Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, is not an uncommon thing to hear in my household.

"Don't let the parachute scare you -- it's terrifying!" cautions Sarah Matye, a tanned marine biologist, preparing a group for one of the world's most unusual scuba dives.

When Ken Burns' daughters were little, they played a game of memorizing the names of the presidents at bedtime.

Here's a look at Mardi Gras, a celebration held the day before the fasting season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.

When it comes to crossing international frontiers, there's one travel document that opens more doors than any other. And it isn't a U.S. passport.

As the National Park Service celebrates its centennial anniversary this year, new numbers show that more people visited America's national park sites in 2015 than ever before.