Travel

Morning commutes just got a lot more fun in Utrecht. Recent renovations to a train station in the Overvecht neighborhood of the Netherlands city included the installation of a slide (their transit authority calls it a "transfer accelerator"), which passengers can ride to the platform instead of taking the adjacent stairs. See it in action in the below clip:

Feel like getting away from it all? Then consider moving to Buford, Wyoming, where just one man, Don Sammons, comprises the town's entire population. The 'Today' show profiled Sammons and his determination to keep his town alive. Sammons left Los Angeles 20 years ago and moved to Buford when it had a total of seven residents. Now, he's the lone occupant in the quiet town, which has only a single p

More than 150 diamondback terrapin turtles disrupted air traffic at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Wednesday as they tried to find the perfect spot to lay their eggs -- in the middle of the tarmac. JFK is surrounded by bay and wetland areas, and apparently there's a sandy spot the turtles like that's right across from Runway 4.

When most people plan a Caribbean getaway, their to-do lists might include a little snorkeling and some colorful cocktails -- not sunbathing so close to arriving aircraft that they're forcibly blown into the water by the jet stream. Well, that's exactly what happens at St. Maarten's Maho Beach and apparently, the tourists actually like it. Its close proximity to the airport and the short runways m

When friends Joe and Larry got stuck at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport overnight, they embraced their confinement like two kids in an empty candy store. Once the airport cleared out for evening, they were off to the wheelchair races. They also hit the escalators, the kitchen, the shoe shine chair and the airport bar, filming the whole adventure in HD for the internet to see. Check it out below: