Flipboard 2025 Destinations

Cities rarely stay frozen in time. Industries collapse, transportation changes, neighborhoods decline, and sometimes an economic crisis forces leaders to rethink what a city is supposed to be. From former factory towns to polluted ports, these cities found very different ways to build a new identity.

Explore the creepiest unsolved mysteries from America’s national parks, including disappearances, ancient ruins, strange geological puzzles, unidentified wrecks, and other baffling stories tied to unforgettable travel destinations.

America’s haunted-road-trip map is enormous. Old hotels, prisons, battlefields, and mining towns all come with stories of guests who supposedly never left.

Some countries feel completely foreign the moment you arrive. Others create a stranger sensation, especially for Americans: everything is different, yet somehow familiar enough that you can imagine living there.

American food is much broader than burgers and apple pie. Travel across the country and you can encounter everything from cornmeal porridge to pork scraps molded into a breakfast loaf. Many visitors happily embrace these regional specialties, but international reaction roundups show that others find certain flavors, textures, and combinations genuinely baffling. These are the American foods that can turn an adventurous tourist's first bite into their last.

You probably learned all 50 state names in school. But probably not these names. Go back far enough, and some familiar places turn up under names you’d barely recognize. How many did you know about?

Canadians dreaming of moving abroad have plenty of options, from sunny Australia to Europe and the U.S. See which countries rank highest.

Some states are almost unfairly good at making a first impression. You arrive for beaches, mountains, food, nightlife, or a perfect long weekend and immediately start wondering what it would take to stay. Then you look at housing, weather, distance, traffic, or the realities that tourists rarely have to deal with. There is no single national poll ranking these states, but their enormous visitor appeal and very real everyday tradeoffs make the vacation-versus-residency divide easy to understand.

From haunted railway hotels and phantom ships to Oak Island's buried treasure and Nahanni's infamous Headless Valley, explore the most mysterious place in every Canadian province and territory.

Yup, all of these places were welcoming visitors during the 80s, but the odds are you weren’t one of them. Honestly, how many of these spots did you actually visit?

Discover the biggest differences Canadians notice immediately in American chain hotels, from tipping and resort fees to breakfasts, parking, housekeeping, pet policies, and other travel quirks south of the border.