Taking a seat on the center of the stone steps inside the entryway of the Basilica Saint-Denis, I align myself with the central stained glass window ...
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Tulum – The Walled City
'The Tulum ruins are that way.' said the young woman at the front desk of the hotel. She pointed in the general direction of the archaeological site ...
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Uxmal – The Place of Plentiful Harvests
Leaving Merida a little later than I had expected that morning, after having forgotten to charge the battery for my digital camera the night before, ...
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Chichen-Itza
The unlit path leading through the jungle and up to Chichen-Itza was crowded with a processional of people walking up to the archaeological ruins. The ...
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Five Reasons To Visit Paris
Paris has changed quite a bit in the twenty-five years that I've been visiting her. She is becoming more of a global city, influenced not ...
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This little church is not easy to find, and I stumbled upon it while walking the nooks and crannies of London. The Temple Church is 800 years old, was ...
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An Empty Gothic Chapel, A Set of Keys, and Silence
Turning the ancient skeleton key in the lock, I entered the chapel, and turned back to the door to lock it behind me. Alone. I was in this one room ...
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The Santa Casa
The Santa Casa, at least the original one, was the house where it is believed that the Archangel Gabriel told Mary about the future birth of her son ...
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Bones, Bones, And More Bones
It's a strange sort of beauty that awaits at the bottom of the stairs of the gothic Bone Church of Sedlec. Bones are everywhere. Human bones. ...