Howard Hughes Grave a Popular Tourist Site
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Howard Hughes probably would have liked Friday, his 99th birthday. With temperatures around the freezing mark in normally balmy Houston, the gravesite of the man whose name was invariably prefaced by "reclusive eccentric billionaire" was devoid of visitors.
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Barbaro will be buried at the site of his greatest triumph.
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The ashes of legendary actor Marlon Brando were spread in Tahiti and Death Valley, according to a newspaper report.
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Visitors to the Bahamas can sunbathe, snorkel, golf, gamble and shop. Now there is a ghoulish new tourist attraction: touring the sites connected to deceased former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith.
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Armed guards may become a presence on one of the world's most famous tourist attractions.
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Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez and stars of the clubâs great past today cherished the memory of the clubâs former captain Emlyn Hughes, who has died from a brain tumour aged 57.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- Day after day, the bodies keep arriving at Wat Lam Kaen. The Buddhist temple in the Khao Lak beach section of this popular resort is one of several temples in the area that have been turned into makeshift morgues, where the calming aroma of incense has been overcome by the sulfurous smell of decay.
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A public memorial service for late actor Heath Ledger is expected to take place in Los Angeles next week.
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Tourists bored with bungee jumping and other extreme holidays may soon be able to get their teeth into another challenge: a couple of weeks in a former communist detention camp in Croatia with hard labour ...
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By Angus MacSwan PAU GRANDE, Brazil  - The grave is in a countrycemetery about an hour's drive from Rio de Janeiro, a simpleslab of grimy concrete squeezed between fancier tombs.
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A candlelit service is to be held for family and friends of the murdered prostitutes in Suffolk.
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By Tom M Miller  Editor, Times-Dispatch:  With others, I was twice privileged to visit Normandy battle sites and the nearby American cemetery holding our special heroes.  Among rows of white crosses two bear gold insignias marking graves of Medal of Honorees.
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FOREST GROVE, Ore. - A most unwelcome guest recently crashed into Barbara Vreeland's home: the cremated remains of a Washington man...
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By NOAKI SCHWARTZ  LOS ANGELES - Every day, tourist buses trundle along the Hollywood Walk of Fame and through Beverly Hills so that sightseers can gawk at celebrities and gasp at their mansions.
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Thousands of Australians turned out Tuesday for a macabre viewing of the remains of a colonial graveyard for convicts, soldiers and free settlers beneath Sydney's city hall.
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Many former Liverpool players and other friends of Emlyn Hughes have paid tribute to the ex-Reds and England captain who died on Tuesday from a brain tumour, aged 57.
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Australian holidaymakers planning to visit Tonga have been advised to leave their high spirits at home while the island paradise mourns its late king.