Christmas isn't just a U.S. holiday. All over the world, various cultures embrace the beauty of the lights, decorations and more specifically, the Christmas tree. Washington, D.C. and New York City aren't the only places you can visit when you want to be filled with the Christmas spirit through bathing in the glow of Christmas lights individually perched on each branch. Here are five places ...

"Fasting on the top of a mountain/I went to Tepoztlán" — Jay Electronica

As one of the most lyrical rappers recording today, Jay Electronica has gained an a notable amount of attention for reasons both related and unrelated to music. The unrelated-to-music claim to fame is his relationship with Erykah Badu with whom he's had a child. His musical accomplishments ...

The Basilica of our Lady of Guadalupe gets more visitors each year than St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Sitting on top of Tepeyac hill, just north of Mexico City, Our Lady of Guadalupe is near the place where it is said Our Lady of Guadalupe, or the Virgin Mary, appeared to Juan Diego, a farmer who later became the Catholic church's first indigenous American saint.

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After a busy day of climbing the pyramids in the ancient city of Teotihuacan, I was starving and I wanted a nice meal. Unfortunately, it was late and most of the restaurants near Hotel Empirco, where I was staying was closed. I wondered into ViPs, which appeared to be a chain restaurant; they were all over the city...you can't miss the red lettering. But this was no ordinary chain ...

The ancient city of Teotihuacan is Mexico’s most visited archaeological site, and with good reason. Here, you feel transported back in time, where men worked day in and day out to build monuments to the Gods.

Standing on the sites Avenue of the Dead, glancing at both the smaller, yet still overwhelming, Moon Pyramid and the towring Sun Pyramid - the third largest in the ...