Hotels are seen on the beach in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. (Luis Acosta/AFP/Getty Images) CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Officials say a giant wave struck a pair of U.S. tourists strolling on the beach near the famous stone arch in the Pacific resort of Cabo San Lucas, killing a 65-year-old woman and leaving a 70-year-old man in serious condition. State police say the two were walking back to their hotel when they were hit by the wave and dragged out...

Take a ride through the Australian Outback in this scenic and artistic music video. The Ghan is a venerable train line that bisects Australia from the city of Darwin on the northern coast to Adelaide in the south. One of the recent passengers on this 1,851-mile trip through the Australian wilderness was music video maker and producer , also known as Pogo. Bertke put his remix skills to good use, turning three-day tour into a mesmerizing two minute musical tour...

Jackson Hole Airport as seen from the aerial tram at Jackson Hole ski resort. (NHRHS2010/Creative Commons) CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The mother of three Minnesota boys who died with their father in a 2010 plane wreck in western Wyoming is suing a company that provides air traffic control services at the Jackson Hole Airport. Michelle Bucklin sued Virginia-based Serco Inc. in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne this week, claiming an air traffic controller's negligence caused the crash. She brought the...

Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel work at the Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2013. (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — Flight attendants, pilots, federal air marshals and even insurance companies are part of a growing backlash to the Transportation Security Administration's new policy allowing passengers to carry small knives and sports equipment like souvenir baseball bats and golf clubs onto planes. The Flight Attendants Union Coalition, which representing nearly 90,000 flight attendants, said it is coordinating...

This 2010 photo provided by Hinsdale County shows the assay office of the historic Ute-Ulay mine near Lake City, Colo., in the spring of 2010. (AP Photo/Kristie Borchers) DENVER — A contaminated 19th century silver mining camp could become a bigger tourism draw for a sparsely populated, high-alpine county in southwest Colorado's San Juan Mountains. Commissioner Stan Whinnery hopes turning the Ute-Ulay mill site, near Lake City, into a cleaned up public site instead of a private one will lure...

Above, you'll find a list giving you each state's tallest building, ranging from a not-yet-open skyscraper that reaches 1,776 feet to an apartment building that hits a height of just 124 feet. These engineering marvels have withstood time and the elements to keep standing tall: the contender from Louisiana made it through Hurricane Katrina with little damage and California's spot is taken by a building that can reportedly withstand earthquakes up to a magnitude of 8.3. Buildings define a city's...

The home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe and the legendary Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, where the 'Bloody Sunday' civil rights march took place in 1965, were among the named by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, according to an Interior Department statement. Salazar and Jarvis announced the new landmarks Monday, calling them "important sites that help tell the story of America," . Other sites that received federal recognition...

The home of Uncle Tom's Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe and the legendary Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama, where the 'Bloody Sunday' civil rights march took place in 1965, were among the 13 new historic landmarks named by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, according to an Interior Department statement. Salazar and Jarvis announced the new landmarks Monday, calling them "important sites that help tell the story of America," according to the...

File photo of Dulles International Airport. (Joe Ravi/Creative Commons/CC-BY-SA 3.0) STERLING, Va. (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration says it stopped a Virginia man from bringing a live smoke grenade on a flight at Dulles International Airport. (MORE: ) The TSA says the Great Falls resident was not charged and was allowed to continue on his flight to Denver. The device was confiscated. The smoke grenade was concealed under the inner lining of the man's carry-on bag. Smoke grenades and...

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Inle Lake, Myanmar Real-life Waterworlds? In most of these water villages and towns, houses are built on stilts over the water and residents travel by boats, forming picturesque scenes that appeal to tourists. Their locations may be somewhat inaccessible and travelers may want to stay away during poor weather, but visiting these floating island communities offers a glimpse into a unique way of life that makes for a one-of-a-kind experience. After years of military rule that sparked a tourism boycott,...

Seen is an image photographer Mike Brodie snapped while train hopping across the U.S. (Mike Brodie) At 17 years old it only took jumping on one train in the wrong direction to inspire Arizona native Mike Brodie to try and travel across the U.S. by hopping on trains, hitchhiking and other modes of free transportation. It wasn't until he discovered a Polaroid camera in 2004 that he began taking pictures of his travels, giving others a snapshot into the lives...

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File) WASHINGTON -- The head of the Transportation Security Administration told lawmakers Thursday he stands by his plan to allow passengers to carry small knives onto planes despite a growing backlash against the proposal. It's unlikely in these days of hardened cockpit doors and other preventative measures that the small folding knives could be used by terrorists to take over a plane, TSA Administrator John Pistole told a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee. On the...