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ASMR is the pleasurable tingling feeling brought on by gentle auditory, visual or tactile stimuli. More bricks-and-mortar ASMR studios are popping up across the United States. Photo: Instagram/kaswellness.oc
Tourism

Paying for a ‘head orgasm’: ASMR spas are taking off in the United States

Scratchy, raspy, feathery and tingly: more people than ever are paying for spa-like sensory experiences to induce ‘the tingles’ in the brain.

Tourism

Ponyo exhibition invites visitors into Hayao ⁠Miyazaki’s ocean world

United States

Outside In | Will tourism slump force Trump to rethink his unilateral approach?

TV shows and streaming video

Mostly unseen footage shows the crazy year building world’s first Disneyland

The new documentary Disneyland Handcrafted on Disney+ reveals just how fragile the creation of California’s Disneyland was.

Workers construct the front gates of California’s Disneyland in a still from Disneyland Handcrafted, a new documentary on Disney+. Photo: TNS
Social media

At 75, Snoopy has conquered the Gen Z market. How did the beagle do it?

Snoopy’s enduring appeal continues to boost Peanuts’ brand now – it has more than 1,200 licensees around the world.

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Tourism

7 travel tips for 2026 – one of them is to play board games with locals

Forget TikTok recommendations and soulless one-star restaurants; focus instead on the experiences you want to taste, drink, and enjoy.

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Tourism

Track history – a 43-hour train trip from Los Angeles to Chicago

Amtrak’s Southwest Chief train route runs between Los Angeles and Chicago on a 43-hour trip, with a dining car and a great viewing carriage.

Passengers on the Southwest Chief train relax in the Sightseer Lounge on the trip between Los Angeles and Chicago. Photo: TNS
Tourism

Tours to visit Christmas movie locations in US state prove huge hit

Fans of Hallmark’s feel-good and family-friendly TV films are taking tours around locations in Connecticut, home to at least 22 productions.

Tourism

11 of the best Unesco World Heritage sites in the US to check out

The US boasts 26 Unesco World Heritage sites, some of which are globally famous, like the Grand Canyon, while others are less well known.

Aviation

Airbus issues major A320 recall, threatening global flight disruption

The aviation giant has ordered immediate repairs to 6,000 of the aircraft, right around the busiest travel weekend of the year in the US.

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An Airbus A320 is seen in Toulouse, south western France, in February 2001. Photo: AFP
Tourism

Interactive museum dedicated to the Shroud of Turin opens in the US

US$5 million museum features 360-degree projection rooms, Shroud of Turin replicas, interactive kiosks and a life-size sculpture of Christ.

Nora Creech, director of Othonia North America, points to a replica of the Shroud of Turin at a new interactive museum in California dedicated to the shroud. Photo: AP
Tourism

Why Big Sur is one of the best destinations in California, by a landslide

With Big Sur’s coastal highway closed for repairs after a landslide, lower prices and a lack of crowds make the area perfect for a visit.

Tourism

Follow the route of a Pan Am Clipper on a Caribbean cruise to Colombia

A nostalgic 28-day cruise on the MS Zuiderdam will call at ports across the Caribbean on its way to Colombia, before returning to Miami.

Tourism

Why hikers and climbers love the Merry Go Round restaurant in California

With friendly owners and servers, the quirky Merry Go Round Chinese restaurant near Mount Whitney in California is a welcome pit stop.

Kuei Chu, 75, cooks shrimp in the quirky Merry Go Round restaurant in Lone Pine, California. Photo: TNS
Luxury Hotels

Independent luxury hotels are offering a more intimate, local feel

From Palihouse West Hollywood to London’s The Hoxton hotels, these properties offer more authentic cultural connections than many global brands.

The Raas Jodhpur is an excellent example of an independent hotel: sat amid the hustle and bustle of the old town, it affords stunning views of a 15th-century fort. Photo: Handout
Art

From Michael Jackson’s locks to hair woven into art, US museum had it all

Leila’s Hair Museum in Missouri might be closing but its intriguing artefacts are heading to institutions across the US, including the Met.

Tourism

Like ‘Elon Musk’s first colony on Mars’: US hotel is pure desert luxury

The Reset hotel just outside Joshua Tree National Park is a new kind of hotel for the high desert: modern, minimal and modular.

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Tourism

Hiking on Yosemite’s lesser-known trails offers epic views – and solitude

Seeing California’s Yosemite National Park in all its beauty usually means dealing with crowds. Not on this hike. You may even spot a bear.

Wild writer Jaclyn Cosgrove celebrates their successful jaunt to Taft Point, an epic lookout point in Yosemite National Park. (Jaclyn Cosgrove/Los Angeles Times/TNS)
Food and Drinks

Love One Piece? Inside the new viral US cafe based on hit Japanese anime

Fans of Monkey D Luffy, Sanji et al are flocking to the One Piece Cafe in Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo neighbourhood for food, merch and more.

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Art

3 newly revived New York art museums to get excited about

3 museums rejoin the roster of must-see attractions in New York by the autumn, bringing important works to the fore when they matter most.

Responsible travel

Heed the call of the wild in Yellowstone, America’s first national park

The evolution of Yellowstone is an experiment in ecological restoration starring wild wolves and bison.

Coyotes, which come lower down the carnivore hierarchy than wolves, are a familiar sight in Yellowstone National Park. Photo: Daniel Allen
Editor's Letter

This week in PostMag: tile art, translation and a marathon star

See how Hong Kong history is written in the walls, get inspired by a trailblazing ultra-marathon queen, or go wild in Yellowstone National Park.

Tiling Error VI: Ogres Flounder (2024), by Adrian Wong, from the exhibition “With Love from Hong Kong”, at Oil Street Art Space in Hong Kong, on the cover of this week’s print issue. Photo: Darren Chau
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