Where do you want to be when the clock strikes midnight this December 31st? Hopefully it will be somewhere more exciting than in front of the television or at the local pub down the street. Here are five places most famous for throwing a big bash on New Year's Eve.

Hilarious video that shows just how silly some of the border placements are. The image portrays the border monuments along a section of the 49th Parallel across the West.

Explosive growth in the population of Mexico City started from the 1960s, with the population overflowing the boundaries of the Federal District into the neighboring state of Mexico, especially to the north, northwest and northeast. Between 1960 and 1980 the city's population more than doubled to 8,831,079.

Professional sport returns to Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years on Sunday when the first pitch is thrown in the communist island’s national baseball league, part of a government bid to halt the flow of sporting defectors overseas.

This is pretty awesome – a chronological look at the most popular girls names by state from 1960 to 2012. Amazing to see trends in naming sweep the nation, from a near total embrace of Mary in the early 60s to Lisa dominating in the mid 60s, to Jennifer’s supremacy throughout the 70s, to the rise of Ashley, Emily, and Emma in more recent years.

Has Banksy finally been photographed? This is allegedly a photograph of the graffiti artist at work.

Banksy took a day off — and blamed the NYPD. The anonymous graffiti artist came up empty Wednesday, disappointing fans of his month long “Better Out Than In” project in New York City.

A landlord faces vandals, tourists, and questions of what to do next.

A decade ago, we wrote about how Verizon had made an agreement in Pennsylvania in 1994 that it would wire up the state with fiber optic cables to every home in exchange for tax breaks equalling $2.1 billion. In exchange for such a massive tax break...

Giant Chinese pigeons, Scarlett Johansson's daughter, and deliberately un-green urban living: What to expect from London, Los Angeles, and Moscow in 2040, 2070, and 2100.

A group called the Oath Keepers wants Americans to form armed ‘citizen preservation’ teams before the coming societal breakdown. Caitlin Dickson talks to the movement’s leader.

Use of a a flesh-eating heroin substitute that rots the skin of addicts has now spread to a Chicago suburb, according to local media reports. Krokodil, which is considered more addictive that heroin, originated in Russia before cases were seen in Arizona last month.

Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars. Here's how the whole operation works.

U.S. law enforcement authorities have shut down "Silk Road," an anonymous Internet marketplace for illegal drugs like heroin and cocaine and criminal activities such as murder for hire, and arrested its alleged owner.

A level-3 sex offender made waves this week by announcing himself to his community. Can society ever truly accept the post-prison convict?

On her first day as the new Miss America, 24-year-old Nina Davuluri followed pageant tradition by dipping her toes into the Atlantic City surf.

In an exclusive interview, the Mexican ambassador in Ottawa says his country is "really mad" at Canada for continuing to impose a visa on its travellers here.

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack on his own people last month provoked President Barac

This man owed $134 in property taxes. The District sold the lien to an investor who foreclosed on his $197,000 house and sold it. He and many other homeowners like him were LEFT WITH NOTHING. Too old, too tired and not enough money to fight. The District sold their small debts to investors, now their homes are gone for good.

Despite recent deaths, fans tell Abby Haglage the trip is way too fun to give up.