The gorgeous exhalation of millions of gaspers and fags and tabs and snouts and pipes and – my personal favourite– Panatelas, had kippered my walls for a century and a quarter.

C.P.R. 2-10-4 No. 5906 on the second part of the westbound Dominion between Field and Ottertail, British Columbia. In the background is Mount Stephen.

The French Riviera has long been a favorite playland for dodgy characters of all stripes.

Since the early 1980s, Fuzhounese immigrants have been the primary force behind the transformation and revitalization of New York's Chinatown.