Many people visit Chiang Rai on a day tour – after all, from Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai it’s only three hours on a comfortable ...

Following outcry over how the sculpture is currently being stored, the city of Columbia has issued a statement reaffirming plans to maintain and eventually reinstall the beloved 40-foot fire hydrant ...

Enthusiastic world travelers Garrick and Darcie Braai have collections of artwork and mementos from their travels with their ...

When Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami issued a proclamation on Tuesday announcing the birth of Siddhartha Gautama, no one in the audience remembered the last time Hanamatsuri festivities were held at the ...

“Busted Plug,” the 40-foot fire hydrant statue that for years sat near the intersection of Taylor and Bull streets in downtown Columbia, hasn’t been seen since it was transported across town on the ...

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

Though sandstone succumbs easily to the chisel, it erodes quickly in rain. The survival of this Buddha and its grottoes, like ...

A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ashore. The sculpture was broken in pieces, but experts recognized it as depicting Vishnu in the Janardanaya avatar, one of his 24 divine forms ...

At least 18 people have been killed in one of South Korea's worst wildfire outbreaks, with multiple blazes burning and ...

The Philadelphia Zoo may be known for its animals, but now there will be more reasons to head to the popular wildlife conservation and education center. The zoo first aims to pay homage to its famous ...

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...