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Playful furniture, Native art, and hidden grottoes are a few of the highlights from this season’s top exhibitions.

Narrated by Sir David Attenborough, the new wildlife series spotlights our majestic natural world—and makes a serious case for the need to protect it. Here’s how to travel to some of the locations featured while keeping conservation in mind.

In collaboration with the World Monuments Fund, the major tech company launched a digital platform that makes threatened cultural sites like Mosul and Babylon accessible through drone footage, 3D models, and educational videos.

With works from best-selling authors like Toni Morrison, Elizabeth Gilbert, and Colson Whitehead, these books top our list for the year.

This mortician traveled the world to examine funeral rituals across cultures. What she found, she says, wasn’t morbid. And she doesn’t want you to think so, either.

These new reads will get you excited for your next adventure to the land of fresh croissants, fragrant lavender, and ultra-chic street style.

Our favorite longreads from the last decade.

The Chicago Architecture Center now makes its home in the last skyscraper designed by midcentury modernism pioneer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. AFAR got a behind-the-scenes tour.

The once-illustrious Mexican city is making a comeback

When Kusama’s wildly popular “Infinity Mirrors” exhibition opened in Seattle, her work revisited the site of her first American solo show.

With impressive shows featuring glasswork and surrealist art, these are American museums worth traveling to in 2019.

Here’s how to stay entertained while you remain home in the midst of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The Mexican holiday is deeply rooted in the tradition of honoring the deceased, but its iconic symbols and colorful celebrations have distinct lives of their own.

Plenty of people resolve to read more every year. And what better reading challenge than to enjoy books by female writers from countries across the globe? Here are some selections to get you started.

Across the country, a number of compelling museums, monuments, and landmark trails commemorate significant moments in African American history.