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RYE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 16:  A detail of a sand sculpture at the Australian Sand Sculpting Championships, February 16, 2003 in Rye, Victoria, Australia. Ten sand sculptures some up to 15 metres high, were made from 1500 tonnes of sand which took a month to complete. This years theme included a French Carnivale maze,with larger than life sculptures of a Ferris wheel, carousel and fun house. Sand artists from all over the world competed in the event. (Photo by Stuart Hannagan/Getty Images)

24 sensational sand sculptures

These beach-born works of art go above and beyond your typical sand castle. Check out these sensational sand sculptures.

Pages from a diary written by Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi party official and key adviser to Adolf Hitler, are seen in a Thursday, June 13,  2013 photo in Wilmington, Del. Authorities recently seized the missing pages from the wartime diary of Rosenberg, after locating them in upstate New York. Rosenberg was convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg trials after World War II and was executed in 1946. "The roughly 400 pages of loose-leaf paper cover the years 1936 through 1944, when Rosenberg was responsible for looting valuables in lands occupied by the Nazis and planning Nazi rule of conquered Soviet territories," U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum officials said in a Web posting Thursday. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Jennifer Corbett) NO SALES

US announces recovery of missing Nazi diary

U.S. authorities have recovered about 400 handwritten pages from the wartime diary of a key Nazi adviser to Adolf Hitler after a 17-year search for the documents, officials said Thursday. Alfred Rosenberg played a significant role in the slaughter of millions of Jews and other non-Aryans considered inferior under the ...

Passengers spell out the word "HELP" aboard the disabled Carnival Lines cruise ship Triumph as it is towed to harbor off Mobile Bay, Ala., Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013. The ship with more than 4,200 passengers and crew members has been idled for nearly a week in the Gulf of Mexico following an engine room fire. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Carnival Triumph returns to scheduled sailing

A Carnival Cruise Lines ship is to weigh anchor four months after an engine fire left it to drift for days in the Gulf of Mexico. The nearly 900-foot Carnival Triumph is scheduled to sail Thursday from Galveston on a sold-out four-night cruise to Mexico and the western Caribbean. The ...

House Financial Services and General Government subcommittee Chairman Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Fla. shakes hands with IRS acting commissioner Danny Werfel after he testified on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, June 3, 2013, regarding a report that the IRS spent about $50 million to hold at least 220 conferences for employees between 2010 and 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

IRS official apologizes for lavish $4M conference

An Internal Revenue Service official whose division staged a lavish $4.1 million training conference and who starred as Mr. Spock in a "Star Trek" parody shown at the 2010 gathering conceded to Congress on Thursday that taxpayer dollars were wasted in the episode. "We're now in a very different environment" ...

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Lawsuit: Prostitutes beat NJ woman in Fla. hotel

A vacation getaway to a swanky South Beach hotel turned into a nightmare for a southern New Jersey woman when she was mistaken for a hooker and beaten up by actual prostitutes who saw her as competition, the woman and her husband claim in a federal lawsuit. Thirty-four-year-old Anna Burgese ...

Air France Concorde flight AF 001 to Paris takes off, 31 May, 2003, at Kennedy Airport in New York. This was the last commercial flight for the Air France Concorde.   AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

Concorde flies into the history books, 10 years ago

It was a wonder of aerospace engineering, a supersonic plane that could slash the flight time between New York and London from eight hours to three and a half. But 10 years ago, the Concorde flew its last flights, eventually landing in museums like the Smithsonian. Many average travelers didn't ...

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Staycations all around the US

Did you get a chance to read my post on 5 things to do for free during your Los Angeles staycation? You don't have to go far to enjoy some time off. With more and more people living on a tight budget, staycations have become a popular way to spend time ...

Visitors take to the heights as they fly their kites during the Blossom Kite Festival on the National Mall in Washington, DC.  It is the third year for the event.

12 great Memorial Day getaways

We've rounded up 12 convenient Memorial Day escapes from coast to coast to ensure that you spend more time enjoying your blues festival (or pool party) than you do deciding where to go. Thinking about taking a break for Memorial Day? Now is the time to start planning. To point ...

Fantasyland inside the Magic Kingdom in Florida is the largest expansion project in the park's 40-year history. Dueling Dumbo rides and the rethemed Barnstormer family roller coaster opened in April at the park in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

Shameless? Rich moms' tactics to cut lines at Disney

According to reports, some wealthy Manhattan families have discovered a new way to skip the long lines at Walt Disney World — and likely found a new way to be despised by the "99-percenters."  The New York Post is reporting some wealthy families are now hiring disabled people to pose ...

Creepy ghost town comes up for air

A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires.

Swift sea-life is the focus at the California Academy of Sciences newest exhibition.

A look at the high speed animals of the ocean

Swift sea-life is the focus at the California Academy of Sciences newest exhibition.

This Sept. 25, 2012 photo shows Banner Peak in the Ansel Adams Wilderness outside Yosemite National Park in California. Yosemite is one of the most visited parks in the national park system, but a hiking trip to the backcountry can offer access to uncrowded, pristine areas. (AP Photo/John Pain)

Traveling to Yosemite National Park

Traveling to Yosemite National Park

As the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum gets ready to open in University Park, Texas, we take a look at all 13 U.S. presidential libraries across the country. Patriots, make your vacation plans.

Presidential libraries across the U.S.

As the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum gets ready to open in University Park, Texas, we take a look at all 13 U.S. presidential libraries across the country. Patriots, make your vacation plans.

This June 11, 2011 file photo shows music fans gathering to watch Wiz Khalifa during the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival is held annually during June on a 700-acre (283-hectare) farm 65 miles (105 kilometers) southeast of Nashville.

Fans travel far and wide to attend music festivals

Photos of fans who travel great distances to attend music festivals. There are about 270 festivals of various types annually in the U.S., and worldwide there are more than 800 in 57 countries, according to Pollstar.

Thai children (L) take part in water battles with elephants as they join celebrations marking the Songkran Festival in Ayutthaya province on April 12, 2013. Songkran is the Thai New Year, which this year starts on April 13, when people celebrate in various ways, including splashing water at each other.     AFP PHOTO / PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL        (Photo credit should read PORNCHAI KITTIWONGSAKUL/AFP/Getty Images)

Wet, wild water festival rings in Thai new year

The Songkran water festival in Thailand leaves revelers soaked.

A bear, tiger and lion live together in Ga. sanctuary

Where can you find a bear playing with a tiger, a lion confiscated from a drug dealer, a monkey named Elvis and more than a thousand other animals? All of them call Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary home. "All of Noah's Ark's animals are rescued in one form or another," Allison ...

Where can you find a bear playing with a tiger, a lion confiscated from a drug dealer, a monkey named Elvis and more than a thousand other animals?

Bear, tiger and lion live as siblings at Ga. sanctuary

Where can you find a bear playing with a tiger, a lion confiscated from a drug dealer, a monkey named Elvis and more than a thousand other animals? All of them call Noah's Ark Animal Sanctuary home.

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What to see, do at Busch Gardens in Tampa

Busch Gardens has plenty to see and do on a trip to the Tampa amusement park.

A view of Bobby's Burger Palace inside the Horseshoe Casino in downtown Cincinnati Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The casino will open its doors to the public on March 4. NICK DAGGY / STAFF

Tour Cincinnati's newest casino

Tour The Horseshoe Casino in downtown Cincinnati held a Media preview inside the casino Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. The casino will open to the public March 4.

NEW TAIPEI, TAIWAN - FEBRUARY 17:  (CHINA OUT) People fly Kongming Lanterns during the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival on February 17, 2013 in New Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese Lunar New Year also known as the Spring Festival, which is based on the Lunisolar Chinese calendar, is celebrated from the first day of the first month of the lunar year and ends with Lantern Festival on the Fifteenth day.  2013 is the Year of the Snake according the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese Zodiac. (Photo by ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)

Lantern festival lights up the sky

Thousands of lanterns lit up the sky in New Taipei, Taiwan, on Feb. 17, 2013, as part of the Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival, the finale to the two-week Chinese Lunar New Year celebration.

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