Sails, Sweat and Sea: Hand-building the World's Biggest Dhow
Where the desert sands of Dubai meet the ocean, a troop of shipbuilders are taking on the enormous task of building the world's largest handmade ship....
Where the desert sands of Dubai meet the ocean, a troop of shipbuilders are taking on the enormous task of building the world's largest handmade ship....
The dusty desert of Lucin, Utah, isn't for everyone. It's lonely, windy and hot. But for Ivo Zdarsky, it's home. The inventor, who in 1984 escaped...
Do you believe in magic? In Colon, Mich., they do. A town of just 1,200 people, Colon has one pharmacy, one pizza parlor and three magic shops. Meet...
Ketchup: it's as American as baseball, July 4th and blues music. But have you ever wondered where it came from? As it turns out, ketchup wasn’t i...
Move over Monopoly, there's a newer board game in town. "Settlers of Catan," a game night classic modeled after the Vikings' journey to Iceland, has...
On the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains lies a town that time forgot. Bodie, Calif. was once a mining village with 10,000 residents....
Alfred Sirleaf runs "The Daily Talk" in downtown Monrovia. It is a chalkboard that he updates daily with local and international news. His main goal...
Put a face to the hands that you see in advertisements and find out what it takes to have professionally good-looking hands (hint: manicures,...
The Indian state of Maharashtra has one of the country's highest crime rates, but the small village of Shani Shingnapur is a special exception to this...
Anna Jarvis LOVED her mom. She loved her mother so much that when her mother died, she devoted herself to campaigning for a national holiday to...
If you could letter in lumberjack-ing, Jack Cearley would be top flannel. He's tried football and basketball, but prefers competing with an axe in...
Hula is a dance of illusions. Behind the grace and the sway there is grit, athleticism, and a knee-breaking, blister-inducing effort to leave...