Developments that matter on long trips.
Venice's €5 day-visitor fee ran on 29 peak days in spring 2024 — the first city in the world to charge entry — and the pilot's real result was data about who the crowds actually are.
The Entry/Exit System went fully live on April 10, replacing the ink stamp with fingerprints and a facial scan, and its first data release shows who was turned away, and why.
A Philadelphia church, a Georgia museum honoring a formerly enslaved nurse, and a South Carolina research center became the newest members of the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network, announced July 14, 2026.
Announced June 30 for the 250th anniversary year, the Irreplaceable America list runs from Boston's African Meeting House to Watts Towers and the missions of Acoma and Laguna.