Japan A Mountain Cemetery The cemetery surrounding Okunoin (meaning “Innermost Sanctum”) in Koyasan, a mountaintop Shingon Buddhist temple settlement in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, houses more than 200,000 graves,... Learn More » Did You Know?
Asia Cormorant Fishing More than 1,000 years ago, both European and Asian fishermen relied on trained cormorants to help them catch fish. The practice still continues in... Learn More » Did You Know?
Tuvalu Visitors Welcome It’s safe to say that vastly more armchair travelers have visited Tuvalu than have actually been there. According to statistics provided by the United... Learn More » Did You Know?
Norway Night Vision A few years ago, Norwegian and British researchers discovered that one part of a reindeer’s eye changes color in winter in order to increase... Learn More » Did You Know?
Cambodia Indian Influence In Cambodia In Cambodia, the 12th-century temples of Angkor Wat boast exquisitely carved scenes from Indian mythology, including the battle at Kurukshetra (as described in the... Learn More » Did You Know?
Mongolia Mongolia’s Diversity “Outer Mongolia” has become shorthand for, at best, somewhere obscure or hard to find, and at worst a desolate wasteland in the middle of... Learn More » Did You Know?
Europe Living Alone In 2016, more than half of all households in Sweden, Denmark and Lithuania were composed of a single person. A higher proportion of women... Learn More » Did You Know?
India Women of the Thar Enduring harsh, arid weather and shifting sand dunes, the rural women of India’s Thar desert are made of tough stuff. To help support their... Learn More » Did You Know?
Global The Ocean’s Power to Heal Wallace J. Nichols knew that for centuries man had believed in the healing power of the ocean. The problem was, nobody had done much... Learn More » Did You Know?
Switzerland Giger’s otherworldly bar H.R. Giger, who died four years ago, was a Swiss painter known for his otherworldly, airbrushed images fusing humans and machines. Giger was a... Learn More » Did You Know?
