The hospital bed in Louisiana's Old State Capitol seems too narrow to accommodate someone as powerful as Huey P. Long. Then again, some people may see it as a metaphor for how, circumstances aside, ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published in April 2023. The first things you’ll notice are the palm trees. And I do mean you, not me — having grown up in Southern California, I took longer ...

President Obama's visit to Cuba this week has highlighted the fading of U.S.-Cuba alienation — but also the deep and lingering differences between the two countries, on issues from freedom of speech ...

Much of the information on the Internet about the long-gone Laurel Sanitarium is riddled with errors and repeats old rumors and myths. The truth about this legendary Laurel landmark is quite a story.

On a terrace outside his Havana apartment, Eduardo Martinez nurtures a small schefflera tree. On a Friday afternoon in January, he looks up at its leaves fondly. "I got it when I was in the sanitarium ...

After Billie Burke, best known for her portrayal of Glinda the Good Witch in the 1939 version of “The Wizard of Oz,” left the Emerald City, she found herself past the yellow brick road of Hollywood ...

On a shaded lot in a quiet residential enclave in the La Crescenta valley sits a collection of Spanish Colonial cottages. These days, the only people who set foot on the Glendale, California, property ...

Virginia’s Luray Caverns are about 90 miles west of Washington, DC, just off the junction of Routes US 340 and US 211. They were discovered on August 13, 1878, by five local men attracted by a ...