Happy (almost!) New Year! As we prepare to welcome 2016, we thought we would look at how cities around the world bring in the New Year. Many of them include impressive firework displays, along wi...

October is the spookiest month of year, full of ghosts, goblins, haunted houses, and scary stories. If you like scary stories, here are 5 haunted places in the United States – and WorldStrides visit...

The United Nations is an international organization whose goal is to “preserve international peace and security, promote self-determination and equal rights, and encourage economic and social well-b...

Did you know that Lady Liberty would wear a size 879 shoe if she was a real person? What about the fact that it cost $500,000 (or over $10 million in today’s money) to build the Statue? In honor of ...

Trinity Church, a Gothic Revival design of Richard Upjohn, turned 150 years old in 1996. During most of the 19th century, the 281-foot steeple of this Episcopal church was New York’s tallest structu...

Over the course of the day, four airplanes were hijacked mid-flight by 19 members of the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. Two planes crashed into the upper floors of the North and South towers (the T...

Located on the southern fringe of Harlem, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Begun in 1892, the cathedral is still only two-thirds finished. Neighbo...

Construction on the Empire State Building began only a few weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and took only 19 months to complete. During the Depression, it was known as the “Empty State Bui...

The 9/11 National Memorial opened on the 10th anniversary of September 11. Located on the former World Trade Center site, the memorial consists of two huge square pools, which sit within the areas whe...

Located in historic Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall is one of the largest indoor theaters in the world. Since it opened in 1932, the Music Hall has welcomed more than 300 million people to e...