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CNN Story by Amy S. Eckert | Video by Lacey Russell, McKenna Ewen and Laurie Frankel, CNN Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) — A rust-colored tree stands in the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, its leafless arms contrasting with the surrounding sugar maples. Get closer, and you’ll see this is no real

Story by Amy S. Eckert | Video by Lacey Russell, McKenna Ewen and Laurie Frankel, CNN Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN) — A rust-colored tree stands in the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, its leafless arms contrasting with the surrounding sugar maples. Get closer, and you’ll see this is no real tree

Story by Katy Koontz | Video by Lacey Russell, McKenna Ewen and Jocelyn Contreras, CNN Knoxville, Tennessee (CNN) — Knoxville residents have a slogan for their city: Keep Knoxville scruffy. It’s a tongue-in-cheek response to a slight from a Wall Street Journal reporter writing about Knoxville’s ultimately successful bid to host the 1982 World’s Fair.

CNN Story by Katy Koontz | Video by Lacey Russell, McKenna Ewen and Jocelyn Contreras, CNN Knoxville, Tennessee (CNN) — Knoxville residents have a slogan for their city: Keep Knoxville scruffy. It’s a tongue-in-cheek response to a slight from a Wall Street Journal reporter writing about Knoxville’s ultimately successful bid to host the 1982 World’s

Story by Kathleen Murphy | Video by McKenna Ewen and Lacey Russell, CNN Duluth, Minnesota (CNN) — It can be difficult to pin down the charm of Duluth in one easy phrase. It’s a small port city with an even smaller-town feel, nestled in the northern woods of the state, two and a half hours

CNN Story by Kathleen Murphy | Video by McKenna Ewen and Lacey Russell, CNN Duluth, Minnesota (CNN) — It can be difficult to pin down the charm of Duluth in one easy phrase. It’s a small port city with an even smaller-town feel, nestled in the northern woods of the state, two and a half

CNN Travel (CNN) — CNN Travel just named America’s Best Towns to Visit in 2024. What underrated spots did we miss? We’ll be looking at small cities and towns all over the United States for our 2025 list. Please share your picks. The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company.

By Alex Stambaugh and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Manchester Airport, one of the UK’s busiest airports, has been hit by a power cut, causing delays and disruption for its passengers. A “significant number of flights” operating from the airport in northern England have been impacted by a “major” power cut in the area, the

Story by Maureen O’Hare | CNNVideo by FJ Feng, Alexandra King, Moss Cohen (CNN) — Most of us have felt the freedom and delight that comes with stripping down to a swimsuit on a sunny day and wading into a cool sea, the horizon twinkling in the distance. But what of shedding those final strips

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: viral candy bars in Dubai, a prime minister has to hitch a ride on a commercial flight, what really happens when a plane has a bird strike and the possible end of shoulder season tourism. Wombat walking They’re one of Australia’s cutest native animals.

By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Few cities have been so adamantly idealized, mythologized and captured on film and in photographs as Los Angeles and Paris. Inside the majestic botanical garden of “Jardin des Plantes” at the heart of Paris earlier this week, Mike Amiri, founder of the eponymous Californian label, brought these two worlds together in a cinematic

By Yola Mzizi (CNN) — Just an hour after getting engaged in Venice, Italy last year, Christyne de Quesada began scouring the internet for white dresses to wear to her many upcoming wedding-related events: An engagement party, a bachelorette weekend, a civil ceremony at a courthouse and a bigger celebration in Mexico City. But the

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Amy Osmun assumed she’d never see Mike Gilberstadt again. They’d met only 10 hours before. Now they were standing in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, facing one another, both putting off the farewells. But time was ticking. They were both set to catch connecting flights – Amy to Scotland, Mike to

By Lianne Kolirin and Matthies Otto, CNN (CNN) — A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor whose family was murdered at Auschwitz is the cover star for the July/August edition of Vogue Germany. Margot Friedländer, née Bendheim, was born in Berlin in 1921. According to a brief bio on the website of Berlin’s Jewish Museum, Friedländer spent the

By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — In the first few minutes of her new documentary film, the writer and director Lagueria Davis pays a visit to her aunt, Beulah Mitchell. At Mitchell’s house, they look through a room filled with boxes of dolls stacked up to the ceiling. Davis — who says in the documentary she

By Lisa Kjellsson, CNN (CNN) — Perhaps you’ve seen the viral YouTube clip of the Hollywood actress Alicia Vikander explaining to talk show host Jimmy Kimmel what Swedish Midsummer is all about (she even taught him the classic “frog dance,” jumping around in sky-high stilettos). Or maybe you’ve just heard that the summer solstice is

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — A dozen tourists have been banned for life from China’s Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for reportedly displaying bad behavior around the animals. A total of 12 people between the ages of 26 and 61 have been issued lifetime bans from the center, according to a post

By Scarlett Conlon, CNN Milan (CNN) — There are few things more synonymous with Italy in spring and summer than its beaches. From the Adriatic to the Amalfi Coast, its colorful “lidos” (private beach clubs) are one of the country’s most iconic exports. The Italian contingent of the Milan Fashion Week schedule seemed set on