Japan 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,... Did You Know?
Asia 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... Did You Know?
Tuvalu 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... Did You Know?
Norway 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... Did You Know?
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... Did You Know?
Mongolia “Outer Mongolia” has become shorthand for, at best, somewhere obscure or hard to find, and at worst a desolate wasteland in the middle of... Did You Know?
Europe In 2016, more than half of all households in Sweden, Denmark and Lithuania were composed of a single person. A higher proportion of women... Did You Know?
India 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... Did You Know?
Global Wallace J. Nichols knew that for centuries man had believed in the healing power of the ocean. The problem was, nobody had done much... Did You Know?
Switzerland 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... Did You Know?
